The Civil War has resulted in increased religious sentiment, both South and North. Within the United States, the surge or religiosity takes form, partly, in a movement to place a tribute to God on U.S. coinage. Peculiarly, the request to the government that initiated the move toward recognizing God on coinage began with a Baptist…
Extortion, extortion, extortion. Southern Baptist opinion-shapers hammer home, week after week, the narrative of extortion as the sin of the Confederacy–a sin that is delaying inevitable victory over the United States. For the Confederacy to collect on God’s promise to carry his chosen people to victory, greed in the South must first be eradicated. Some…
As the year draws to the a close, the Confederate economy is on unsteady ground. Prior to the war, the combined economies of the southern states that now comprise the Confederacy would have ranked the South as the fourth richest nation in the world. The South’s monetary landscape today, however, is in the early stages…