This week’s edition of the Tennessee Baptist reprints a list of “Rules for a Good Overseer.” Slave overseers (generally white) are men who are employed by slave owners to manage plantation slave labor for maximum profit. Relatively few Baptists of the South in 1861 own plantations or own enough slaves to merit an overseer. Likewise,…
This week a letter from a self-appointed Baptist army missionary appears in print. S. C. Talley, a Tennessee Baptist, reports of his efforts the previous month to minister among Confederate soldiers training at Camp Trousdale in Sumter County, Tennessee. Camp Trousdale has served as a primary training ground for the Army of Tennessee since June.…
From today’s Tennessee Baptist newspaper, although apparently written a few days or weeks earlier, an article entitled “The Mary Sharp College and the War”: We have just returned from Winchester. On our way there we met with Prof. McCall, and some students of Union University returning home in the South, and learned from them the…