Today’s edition of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald continues efforts to reconstruct the Old Confederacy as a righteous slave regime that was overwhelmed by the military might of an ungodly Northern people. Upset that Missouri is requiring all ministers to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States, Southern Baptists lament that the mandate…
From Booneville, Missouri, the state’s General Association of Baptists, having re-affirmed their ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, formally protests the Test Oath of the new Missouri state constitution, of which ministers are required to sign. The Test Oath is designed to assure the loyalty of Missouri’s citizens to the United States government, much to…
In Virginia the forces of Union General Philip Sheridan maintain pursuit of Confederate General Jubal Early‘s forces, albeit at a slow enough pace to allow ample time to burn crops, barns, forage and whatever else they think would have been useful to the Confederacy. Meanwhile, forces under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest…