Once again, Southern hopes are dashed. The losses in the Chattanooga Campaign and the retreat southward into Georgia are a bitter blow to the Confederacy as winter closes in. Confronted with the growing likelihood of losing the war, Southern Baptist newspaper editors increasingly focus on spiritual victories taking place within the Confederate Army. Eternity, after…
Baptist minister and soldier J. J. Hyman is serving as a chaplain in the 49th Georgia Regiment, a unit under the command of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The troops have been in winter quarters for several months now, awaiting the battles that are to come in the spring. For chaplains, the temporary settling of…
Festive moments are hard to come by for many families during the nearly two-year old war. Few are the families not impacted by the great conflict, and times of laughter and joy inevitably fade away against the backdrop of a vast canvas of death and destruction from which there is no true escape. And yet,…