Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, solidly under the control of the United States military, is the Union’s southern headquarters for the war and a major military supply depot. Fort Howell, a hospital, barracks, and other structures support a force that at times exceeds 30,000 men. Strategically, the island is staging grounds and supply headquarters for…
Northern missionaries, some Baptists, are operating the first school for former slaves on the Union-controlled South Carolina island of St. Helena. The school is part of the United States’ Port Royal experiment of educating and training freed slaves for autonomous living. Began on the Oak Plantation in June, the school quickly grows and this month…
If the war were to last for years, what should Baptists of the South do? An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index offers an answer: This war may last and probably will last during Mr. Lincoln’s administration; and, in the meantime, Sabbath schools must be maintained that our children may be taught the…