With the commencement of warfare, Baptist newspapers in Georgia and Virginia, among others, advocate strongly for the Confederacy. Establishing a pattern that will remain in the months and years ahead, Georgia’s Christian Index and Virginia’s Religious Herald expend much ink reprinting war news from southern secular newspapers and editorializing on behalf of the Confederacy. Today,…
On the brink of the war, a Confederate company is formed in Cass County, Georgia (now Bartow County). Company H becomes known as Wofford’s 18th Georgia Regiment, named after the W. T. Wofford, the businessman who raised the company. The regiment also later becomes known as the “Rowland Highlanders.” Soon enlisting in Company H is…
A speech that Governor Joseph Brown of Georgia recently gave to military officers and soldiers in Macon is printed in today’s Southern Recorder newspaper. The Baptist politician’s words echo familiar southern secessionist themes, rallying white citizens to the defense of the South’s slave culture (“domestic affairs”), advocating freedom and equality only for whites, and invoking…