In the state of Missouri, loyalties are divided. While the state remains with the Union during the war, some citizens fight for the Confederacy. Baptists comprise some of the older and more prominent families in Greene County during the war years. Some Baptist men fight for the South, and others for the North. But not…
John Beauchamp Jones is a successful novelist and newspaper man who is now working as a clerk in the Confederate war office in Richmond, Virginia. Formerly living in the American West, his novels focus on the West and the South. While working for the Confederate government, Jones maintains a daily diary of his wartime experiences.…
Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, months ago preached that African slavery is unquestionably biblical. Many other Southern Baptist pastors have also preached this central message of the South from their pulpits. Yet for an institution ordained by and blessed of God, the war has already revealed that enslaved Africans…