Amidst the tumult of war, humor occasionally makes an appearance in the Baptist press of the South. Such is the case in regards to a short piece published in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder. A man who had recently been elected a Major of the Militia, and who was not overburdened with brains,…
Reprinted in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder is a letter from a Confederate correspondent from Camp Magnum, near Raleigh, North Carolina, who in recent weeks wrote of his observations regarding newly-mandated prayers at Confederate Army dress parades. All the troops in this State now have prayer at Dress Parades. This was commenced a week…
An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index addresses the primary of family and the moral foundations of the Confederacy, explaining that the future of the nation rests upon the shoulders of today’s Caucasian parents, who must train up their white, male children in the (Southern) ways of God. Religion, to exhibit its loveliest…