This month, Social activist and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) and husband Samuel Howe (1801-1876) visit Washington D.C. and have an audience with former Baptist, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. During their visit to the city, the Howes witness a military review and listen to Company K of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer sing “John Brown’s Body”…
Union General George McClellan’s Special Order No. 7 has now been in effect for one week. The order reads: The Major-General Commanding desires and requests that in future there may be a more perfect respect for the Sabbath on the part of his command. We are fighting in a holy cause, and should endeavor to…
As a result of the war, Baptist Sunday worship services in the South have taken on a new dimension. The war and the fate of the Confederacy are never far from the minds of congregants throughout the South, while preachers often utter some words that directly or indirectly refer to the crisis. Yet matters of…