Today is a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer in the Confederate States of America. A brief commentary in the North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, in anticipation of this day, places the occasion in context. …The proclamation is timely, and we hope the day will be generally observed. Our affairs have reached a crisis. Bragg…
Unbeknownst to Union Maj. General George B. McClellan, today his months-long offensive against Richmond moves into its final phase. The beginning of the end takes the form of a minor Union offensive action. On the outskirts of Richmond and separated by a strip of forest some 1200 yards wide, Union and Confederate forces since the…
By proclamation of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, many Baptists and other Christians today (a Friday) gather in their houses of worship to offer special prayer for the Confederacy, a nation now reeling from Union advances in Virginia and the deep South. Davis’s proclamation is as follows: To the People of the Confederate States of America:…