Today from the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia, pastor John L. Burrows delivers a rousing sermon criticizing the opening of a new theatre in the Confederate capital. The new theatre replaces the city’s Hewitt Theatre that had burned on New Year’s day, and was built and is owned by a woman,…
Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside readies his attack upon Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s forces in Fredericksburg. With over 200 artillery pieces pointed over the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg and pontoon bridges ready for deployment, Burnside tries to anticipate Lee’s defensive strategy. Successfully crossing the river on the bridges is critical to a Union victory. The…
This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a letter from Southern Baptist Army Chaplain D. G. Daniell, who writes from Camp Causton Bluff near Savannah. ….I may mention the interest which the men manifest in religious newspapers, some thirty copies of which are circulated among them weekly, with the injunction to read and pass them…