North Carolina Baptist editor J. D. Hufham of the Biblical Recorder today addresses Confederate President Jefferson Davis‘ proclamation of a national day of fasting and prayer — to be held August 21 — and blames last month’s battlefield defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg on various sins of the Confederacy. The President has recommended Friday the…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a North Carolina solider that touches upon many central themes of camp life: distance, death, religion, and vice. “A.H.C.” is stationed at Camp Pickens, Manassas, Virginia, with the 4th Regiment North Carolina State Troops. Bro. Hufham: It has been my privilege to read your paper occasionally,…
This week Mary Jeffreys Bethell of Rockingham County, North Carolina speaks of God and the war. A Methodist, Bethell attends a nearby Baptist church, offering her assessment of the congregation: We went to Union yesterday to hear Mr. Macneely preach, he is an old Baptist, he is a revivalist, a warm preacher, there was some…