In the pages of the current edition of the Tennessee Baptist, readers learn of a proposal advocating new uniforms for the students of Mary Sharp College, a female Baptist institution in Tennessee. A shortage of northern goods, including clothing, is already plaguing the South. But the South has plenty of cotton that can be made…
Archibald Harrison Holland of Georgia, who turned 17 three weeks ago, today attends an enlistment rally for the Confederate Army—a turning point for him and a juncture of anguish for his mother who refuses to let her oldest son go gently into the war environs. “He became so enthused on this occasion that he immediately…
Today the son of a Baptist minister enlists in the Confederate Army, Company K, 1 It Regiment, South Carolina Infantry. In so doing, Lucias Chambers chooses to fight alongside one brother, Lamech, and against another brother, Lemuel, who serves in the Union army. Lucias participates in the Battle of Port Royal on the South Carolina…