As Sherman overruns Georgia and Lee is pinned down in Virginia, the Confederacy has placed great military hopes in General John Bell Hood‘s invasion of Tennessee. Hope, however, far distant from reality in the rapidly-sinking Confederacy, is not to be found in Tennessee as the Federals defeat the Rebels yet again, this time in the…
White Baptist commitment to the Confederacy is similar to that of the South’s other Christian denominations: many if not most embrace (in some fashion or another) the Confederacy as God’s Kingdom on earth, while few publicly disagree with the belief that African slavery is God’s will for the black race. Calvinism, a long-held Christian belief…
The Battle of Shiloh occurs near a small log church in western Tennessee. The primary fighting will last until the morrow. The church building, destroyed shortly after the battle, is Shiloh United Methodist Church. Some references indicate that a Baptist congregation also utilizes the building. Indeed, Protestant denominations frequently share buildings in the rural South.…