As the war moves into its third winter, the state of Virginia, home to Richmond, the capital city of the Confederacy, struggles all the more. The Virginia General Assembly is in session in Richmond today, the fifth day of the 1863-1864 session. Jeremiah Bell Jeter, pastor of the city’s Grace Street Baptist Church and ardent…
During the gloominess that hangs over a despondent Confederacy, many white southerners cling to the hope that the past can yet be restored into a glorious future. Samuel Boykin, editor of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index and since prior to the war a dreamer of a glorious future for the Confederate nation, obliges the persistent…
Jacob M. C Breaker (1824-1894), born in South Carolina, is a leader among the state’s Southern Baptists. Like most prominent Southern Baptists, he is a member of a wealthy slave-owning family. In Jacob’s childhood years his father, Lewis Frederick Breaker–a wealthy merchant and plantation owner and a deacon at First Baptist Camden, South Carolina–moved the…