The war does not put a damper on Southern Baptist revivals. The traditional revival season is August through October, the months reflective of harvest season, although some revivals take place in late July. Food crops are scarce in much of the South, but congregational evangelistic gatherings in meeting houses and outdoors are in no short…
Today in Alabama’s Mobile Bay, the Confederacy’s Fort Gaines surrenders. The Stars and Stripes are raised, and the United States formally assumes control of the bay. Northward in the battle for Atlanta, a Confederate Baptist layman is captured by Union forces, for the second time. Walter Noel Leake (1844-1920), born in Kentucky, as a child…
In and around the battlefronts of Atlanta and Petersburg (and nearby Richmond), anticipation and apprehension is in the air. News of the Union victory in Mobile Bay is filtering out. With the shuttering of the port of Mobile, the Federals have further tightened their encirclement around the South. The strangling of the Confederacy involves that…