North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham offers his current, and rather sober, assessment of the war effort as news of Confederate victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville filters southward. The next few weeks or months will be productive of results of vast moment to the people of this nation. The enemy seem…
As the Battle of Chacellorsville (Virginia) winds down and proves to be a victory for the Confederacy, this week’s readers of the North Carolina Biblical Recorder read more letters from army missionaries serving among Confederate soldiers. One such letter is written by army colporter J. A. Stradley, who, during this time of growing revivals within…
In the wake of the Richmond Bread Riot earlier this month, there is growing concern over food shortages within the Confederacy. A good growing season is imperative. Against this backdrop, an editorial in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder offers advice to the farmers of North Carolina. These are now the alternatives placed before us. If…