This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index extensively covers the war. A tribute to the late great Stonewall Jackson offers a longing glance backward at the biggest Christian superstar the war has produced within the Confederacy. “Thank God for such a hero!” are the opening words of a sonnet to Jackson. His “divine courage” and “patriot…
An editorial in today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder speaks of the duty of home front Southern Baptists to their brave Confederate soldiers, tugging at the heart strings of readers. Those who have visited the army or labored in the hospitals know that there is one object which is ever present to the mind of…
Mississippi Baptist minister Mark P. Lowrey organizes the 32nd Mississippi regiment in north Mississippi and is elected Colonel of the regiment. This represents his second, and an unanticipated, stint of Confederate service. An excerpt from Lowrey’s autobiography speaks of his joining the army for the second time, as well as the days following: I had…