This week Mary Jeffreys Bethell of Rockingham County, North Carolina speaks of God and the war. A Methodist, Bethell attends a nearby Baptist church, offering her assessment of the congregation: We went to Union yesterday to hear Mr. Macneely preach, he is an old Baptist, he is a revivalist, a warm preacher, there was some…
Death visits soldiers with increasing regularity. Georgia Methodist minister Rev. William M.Crumley, chaplain of the Georgia Confederate hospital in Richmond, Virginia, in today’s Augusta Daily Constitutionalist offers assessments of the Georgia hospital and the the Confederate cemetery in Richmond, as well as a glowing, if perhaps biased, description of Confederate soldiers. His words, penned in…
James R. Graves, editor of the Tennessee Baptist and a long-time lightning rod in Baptist life, frequently publishes letters from readers who are appreciative of him. Graves’ critics fault him for his northern roots and Landmark ecclesiology. B. F. Burroughs, a Texas Baptist, offers a strong defense of Graves, as well as commentary regarding the…