Today a North Carolina army missionary, a minister working to distribute Christian literature among North Carolina’s confederate soldiers, from Goldsboro (east of Raleigh) pens a letter reminding home front North Carolinians that the future of the Confederacy lies in the hands of “our young men” in the army. …. Remember my dear friends that nearly…
In the midst of a war pitting two opposing views of God, the Bible and Christianity against one another, journalist Samuel Clemens in Nevada adopts the pen name of Mark Twain. Following the war, Twain gains fame as a humorist. He also becomes known as a satirist and critic of Christianity and the Bible. While…
Not all white Southerners are supporters of the Confederacy. Throughout the mountainous regions of the South in particular, an area where slaves are a relative rarity while poor whites struggle to eke out a living from the land, strong pro-Union sentiment was present prior to the war and remains to this day, increasing as the…