As battles rage on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Henry Martin Tupper, born in 1831 in Monson, Massachusetts, today graduates from American (Northern) Baptists’ Newton Theological Institution (otherwise known as Newton Seminary). The war may have seemed distant to Tupper during his studies at Newton, but within weeks of graduation, on July…
Today a Captain within the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry resigns. A wealthy lawyer, author and Baptist layman, John Wheeler Moore (1833-1906) resigns his position in order to accept a promotion as a major of a new artillery battalion, the 3rd Battalion NCLA near Raleigh, of which he is given command by Governor Vance on February 24.…
Readers of weekly Baptist newspapers of the South (and there are more such periodicals based in the South than in the North) are fed a constant war-time diet of war-related editorials and commentary; first-hand accounts from Baptist soldiers, chaplains and missionaries; and political, economic and battlefield reports (reprinted or summarized) from secular newspapers. Far from…