Each week during the war, editors of (white) Southern Baptist newspapers offer a potpourri of short pieces that collectively reveal their perspectives of the great conflict. By and large, these gatekeepers of denominational news are ardent supporters of the Confederacy, albeit the nuances of their shared nationalism (like that of the white South at large)…
In the border state of Maryland, Baltimore’s First Baptist Church–according to an account two decades following the war–weathers the war years quite well, although sadness of an unusual variety marks this day. Another season of refreshing visited the Church in 1863, resulting in the addition of a small number by baptism, by letter and by…
Southern Baptists’ Foreign Mission Board, located in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, has been decimated by the war and forced to pull back from its foreign operations. Communication with missionaries on foreign fields is severed, while the ability of the Board to pay missionaries’ salaries has been compromised by both the lack of contact…