Baptist newspaper editors of the South search Northern papers for any hint of negative press regarding the United States, often re-printing suitable articles with appropriate commentary. Such is the case in this week’s Virginia Religious Herald newspaper. We are indebted to a friend, for a late copy of the New York Independent–the organ of the…
In churches throughout both nations, soldier wives worship and wonder–wonder if their husbands will one day return safely. Outside, the weather is cold, warning all of impending winter. Philadelphia is “very cold and dreary,” relates Emilie Davis, an African-American young woman who today attends church services. Her concerns are for the many blacks for whom…
Each week during the war, editors of (white) Southern Baptist newspapers offer a potpourri of short pieces that collectively reveal their perspectives of the great conflict. By and large, these gatekeepers of denominational news are ardent supporters of the Confederacy, albeit the nuances of their shared nationalism (like that of the white South at large)…