The second day of the Chattanooga Campaign proves similar to the first in that the Union again emerges victorious. Today’s Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain is impressive and decisive. In the “battle above the clouds,” U.S. troops, led by General Joseph Hooker, climb the slopes of Lookout Mountain in an effort to…
An editorial in this week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald posits that if everyone in the Confederate States would simply believe the biblical gospel, then Southern troubles would “vanish into air.” Lamenting the lack of gospel belief in the North, the writer makes no bones about the true gospel being that of racial purity–white supremacy and…
News of the revivals among Baptists of the South are not confined to Baptist newspapers only. The nightly meetings at two of Richmond’s Baptist congregations merit mention this week in the Richmond Daily Dispatch: Revival meetings among Baptists are attracting sizable numbers of attendees. A protracted Meeting is being held every night in the Second…