Many Baptist associations of the South meet this month, and the war is a frequent theme interspersed in associational meetings. This weekend, the Rehoboth Baptist Association of Georgia, meeting at the Forsyth Baptist Church in Monroe County, offers insight into the multi-dimensional impact of the great conflict. Missions, a major concern of Southern Baptists, is…
Today, Sunday, the 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry seeks a suitable place on the upper North Carolina coast to construct a battery. The effort is part of larger campaign by Confederate forces to hurriedly secure their coastlines in the face of a superior Union Navy. Alva Spencer, a Mercer University graduate, records a rather humorous…
“These days are fraught with many blessings,” Julia Stanford, a teacher in Forsyth, Georgia comments this week. “Would that we had heart to appreciate them – Truly the lines have fallen in pleasant places. God’s ways are far above our poor ways.” Against the backdrop of distant battlefields and a cloudy, rainy week at home,…