Some Baptist contributions during the war years take place away from battlefields. Words themselves are powerful, ever more so as the war nears the one year anniversary of the firing upon Fort Sumter. Perhaps the most notable moment this month among Baptists of the North occurs on a Wednesday night at the First Baptist Church…
The Baptists of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are doing their part to support the Union cause. As reported by today’s Philadelphia Inquirer: COL. GREGORY’S REGIMENT of Ninety-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, now at Camp Chase, on the Darby road, have received orders to march, and will strike tents to-day, and leave for Washington this afternoon. The officers and men…
Christmas Eve arrives, signaling the first war-era holiday season with many families separated by hundreds of miles and a deep chasm of anxiety. It won’t be the last. In years to come, the fortunate families are the ones struggling with separation and anxiety, rather than grief and death. For now, though, home front family members…