While black Baptists of the South joyfully celebrate their growing liberation from slavery and into freedom, many white Baptists pray all the harder for God to save the Southern regime of white supremacy and black enslavement. Today in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Dr. Lansing Burrows, pastor of the city’s First Baptist Church, opens the…
The fortunes of the Confederacy have grown so desperate–some two-thirds of Confederate soldiers have deserted, and there are no more able-bodied white men available for military service–that a growing number of voices are calling for allowing slaves to serve in the army. President Jefferson Davis, unable to think of any other effective way to supplement…
Today Union General Ulysses S. Grant telegrams General William T. Sherman, in response to Sherman’s request to march from Atlanta to Savannah, destroying Confederate infrastructure and supplies along the way. “If you are satisfied the trip to the sea coast can be made holding the line of the Tennessee river firmly,” Grant tells Sherman, “you…