In the state where the Confederacy was born, the South Carolina Baptist Convention is meeting in annual session in Greenville. The war permeates the proceedings. Several Southern Baptist ministers are presently imprisoned in Union-occupied Nashville, Tennessee for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the United States. South Carolina delegates convey their support for…
Nashville has now been a Union-occupied city for two months, and will remain occupied for the remainder of the war. A mixture of southerners (those who chose not to evacuate), northern soldiers and freed slaves, the city lives in daily tension. Former African slaves roam the city with freedom, although a curfew is in effect…
In a reminder that many Baptists of the South are just as pro-war as other southerners, an announcement in this week’s Memphis Daily Appeal makes note of a new weapon of war invented by an enterprising Baptist minster: The Rev. Mr. Graves, a well known elder of the Baptist church, yesterday showed us a new…