The Southern coastline is a weak link in the Confederacy. Their ports cut off by Union blockades, and many key coastal land areas now under the control of the United States Army, the Confederate States is largely isolated from its own coastline. Furthermore, the Northern military presence in the region is leading to ever-growing numbers…
With the Confederate economy in a free-fall, many Baptist pastors, dependent upon the financial goodwill of their church members, struggle to survive. Prior to the war, Louisiana was home to some of the wealthiest counties in the entire nation, thanks to the state’s fertile soil that produced an abundance of cotton and sugar cane, soil…
Less than two weeks before United States President Abraham Lincoln is scheduled to legally free African slaves within the Southern states rebelling against the U.S., a commentary in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder reminds Baptists that slaveowners, not abolitionists, are “the only true friends” of the black race. This war has unmasked the hypocrisy and…