With a wet spring that mires roads and swells rivers behind them, Blue and Gray armies face off in the series of battles around Richmond, Virginia, now known as the Seven Days battles. Georgians count consistently in the carnage of the various encounters. Into the clash near the gristmill of Dr. William Gaines on 27…
An editorial in this week’s Christian Index defends the rightness of the South and reinforces Amos C. Dayton’s Georgia speaking tour in defense of the godliness of African slavery. We are delighted when we contemplate the state of public sentiment in the South. We perceived during all our late reverses no wavering, no doubting, no…
Southern Baptist pastor and author Amos C. Dayton, a Tennessean and leading advocate of the theory that Baptist lineage can be traced back to John the Baptist, is in Georgia preparing for a speaking tour to Baptists and other Christians on the subject of slavery. He declares he will: … treat at length of the…