Stationed at Portsmouth, Virginia with Company C of the 3rd Georgia Regiment, Private Alva B. Spencer, a recent graduate of Georgia Baptists’ Mercer University, writes to his friend, “Maggie” (Margaret Lucinda Cone), expressing his feelings of Confederate patriotism: Many, very many, precious souls have been launched before God’s throne since the commencement of the…
On this Sunday Julia Stanford, a member of First Baptist Church Forsyth, Georgia discusses church and Thatcher’s Comet: “Went to Sabbath school carried in all the books due. Stayed to Church – As usual, and as usual have forgotten the text … The new comet looks magnificent. Friday there was a magnificent meteor large as…
Nearly two months after the formal beginning of warfare between the United States and Confederate States, young men North and South excitedly prepare to defend their respective countries. Duty, ideology, adventure, honor, and the defense of homeland, family and freedom are some of the reasons that compel soldiers to fight. In Georgia, Baptist’s Mercer University,…