Today in Natchez, Mississippi, a Union-occupied city since September 1863, an experiment begins in the city’s Rose Hill Baptist Church, a historic black congregation. The experiment is in the form of a church day school for black children, a school enabled by the support of Northern abolitionists who provide teachers for the new school. In…
A brief article in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder echoes advice from the South Carolina Confederate Baptist regarding church members who are growing corn partially to turn into whiskey, and partially to sell at high profits to the public, while food is ever more scarce in the South. The Confederate Baptist, in reply…
Today near the small town of Raymond, Mississippi, Confederate and Union forces clash as Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant continues his efforts to capture nearby Vicksburg. The federals, clearly outnumbering the Confederates, win the battle. The conflict results in nearly 1,000 casualties, and by midnight Raymond is filled with wounded soldiers. The Confederates turn the…