Mississippi Baptist minister Mark P. Lowrey organizes the 32nd Mississippi regiment in north Mississippi and is elected Colonel of the regiment. This represents his second, and an unanticipated, stint of Confederate service. An excerpt from Lowrey’s autobiography speaks of his joining the army for the second time, as well as the days following: I had…
White Baptists of the Confederacy share many of the same war-related convictions as do white southern Christians of other denominations. At a time when southerners are reeling from a string of battlefield setbacks, this week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints a brief commentary, originally appearing in a Presbyterian paper, regarding differences between South and North:…
In these early months of 1862, Confederate soldiers and other observers of Confederate army camp life (including chaplains, missionaries and local citizens) routinely write letters for publication in Southern Baptist news publications. There is typically a lag time of one to three weeks (or more) between the writing of the letters and publication in newspapers.…