Southern hand-wringing over July’s losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg continues. One common response by Baptist leaders of the South is to search for the sins of the Confederacy that have led to God’s disfavor upon his chosen nation. There is, however, no consensus on what may be the primary sin of the Confederate nation, a…
South of Union-controlled Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, seeking to regain ground from the federals, engages Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans’ Union forces. Thus begins the Battle of Chickamauga. Although Union lines successfully hold today in the face of a heavy assault, the morrow brings reinforcements from the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of…
Today Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky and a Confederate supporter, journals her anxieties about her nation and family. Have been busy about many things to day, but one subject is on my mind and in my heart almost forever when awake, let me be doing what I…