On this Sunday in Washington, D.C., U.S. President Abraham Lincoln poses for a new photograph. The president’s Gettysburg Address is merely one week distant. The growing toll of death weighs heavily upon the man. In California, a fire ravages Nevada City. Fires are a frequent occurrence in western towns due to the predominance of wooden…
Despite revivals in Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate soldiers camped at Marietta, Georgia seldom hear the Gospel proclaimed. A recent letter from Georgia Baptist army missionary James A. Toole appears in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index. From Marietta, Toole speaks of his work and mentions the lack of preaching…
Alabama’s Ten Islands Baptist Association meets at Post Oak Spring Baptist Church in Calhoun County, Alabama. Like many Baptist associations of the South during this fall season, the Ten Islands association passes (over the course of the three day gathering) resolutions and offers commentary on the war, the Confederacy, confederate soldiers and African slavery. Three…