Many white Southerners keep a keen eye on happenings in Washington, D.C., hopeful that political unrest in the North may yet lead the United States to make peace with the Confederate States. Many Northern Democrats continue clamoring for peace. At this moment, a political victory seems more likely than a military victory. President Abraham Lincoln…
The citizens of middle Georgia yet live far from any battlefield action, despite Union encroachments as far south as the state’s coastal islands and, since the fall of 1863, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Accordingly, the town of Macon, the region’s largest city, in recent months has become a hub of hospitalized Confederate soldiers, their numbers growing daily.…
Baptist newspapers this week deign to peer into the future. While there is no unanimity as to what the future holds, for Baptist periodicals of the South a gaze forward at least offers the opportunity — if one so wishes — to lay aside the national disasters of 1863. Unlike the gloom and doom pronounced…