Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown, a Southern Baptist layman, has evidenced an independent streak since the beginning of the war. Brown governs over a state whose citizens, most of whom are not slave owners, barely supported secession in early 1861. In this second year of war, Brown has demonstrated that he will protect the interests…
Baptists of the South struggle with the issue of chaplains. Typically opposed to government pay for religious chaplains–due to their historic commitment to church state separation–Southern Baptists are exploring other ways to evangelize Confederate soldiers. North Carolina Baptists have in recent months turned to the systematic distribution of large numbers of their state newspaper, the…
This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a letter from Southern Baptist Army Chaplain D. G. Daniell, who writes from Camp Causton Bluff near Savannah. ….I may mention the interest which the men manifest in religious newspapers, some thirty copies of which are circulated among them weekly, with the injunction to read and pass them…