A correspondent from the Richmond Daily Dispatch offers personal observations of Baptist life in South Carolina: Since my last I have been rambling a little more in the Palmetto State, and have spent a few days in Georgia, well deserving to be called the Empire State of the South. I was delighted with Anderson and…
Confederate soldier Rev. Lucratus Hodges “Cratus” Foster, born in Cass County, Texas in 1842, is a soldier in the 9th Texas Cavalry. Having enlisted on February 14, 1862, the Baptist layman bears the physical and mental scars of war. His left hand is now mangled and essentially useless, and he has served time as a…
Readers of Southern Baptist newspapers are, by now, fed a steady diet of news regarding the religious condition of the Confederate army, and this week is no exception, as an article in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder testifies. The letters, which we have been publishing for weeks, will give our readers some notion of…