Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch profiles a Richmond Baptist college that is a newly-converted Confederate hospital, one of dozens of hospitals in the city treating wounded Confederate soldiers. Richmond Female Institute. – This fine building, on 10th street has been taken by the authorities and is now being rapidly fitted up as a hospital for the…
Baptist life in the Confederate capital of Richmond is vastly different than a mere twelve months ago. Whereas Baptists have long been a significant presence in the city, the war compels local Baptists to become involved in many new, and highly visible, efforts outside of church walls. Not the least of these endeavors are hospitals…
Death visits soldiers with increasing regularity. Georgia Methodist minister Rev. William M.Crumley, chaplain of the Georgia Confederate hospital in Richmond, Virginia, in today’s Augusta Daily Constitutionalist offers assessments of the Georgia hospital and the the Confederate cemetery in Richmond, as well as a glowing, if perhaps biased, description of Confederate soldiers. His words, penned in…