The Battle of Fredericksburg is now over, having been a humiliating defeat for the United States Army. Yet death has visited both North and South. An eyewitness account from a North Carolina Baptist soldier–a member of Reeds Baptist Church–written after the battle, recounts the carnage taking place around him in Confederate ranks on the day…
Baptists of the Confederacy turn to their state denominational newspapers not only for a Christian interpretation of the war, but also to keep abreast of army movements, the Southern economy, and much more. In today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, editor J. D. Hufham supplies his readers with a summary of “secular” news from Virginia.…
Rev. A. E. Dickinson of Virginia, traveling throughout the Confederacy as a representative of the temporarily-shuttered Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board and coordinating Southern Baptist efforts to distribute Bibles to soldiers, this week offers a message of future hope (as related by a reporter) for his fellow white Southern Baptists. …. Christianity has achieved its…