While public opposition to the Confederacy from within Southern Baptist churches is rare, Northern Baptists are not nearly as unified regarding their views of the United States. Although seemingly most Baptists of the North are anti-slavery and support the Union cause, some Baptists openly support the peace movement in the North, an effort to put…
This month an anxious mother receives a reassuring letter from her Confederate soldier son (one of five who are serving in the army), who himself is anxious from not yet having received a response to his last letter. The Blackford family is a Virginia family of some means with a pre-war history of support for…
Today a North Carolina army missionary, a minister working to distribute Christian literature among North Carolina’s confederate soldiers, from Goldsboro (east of Raleigh) pens a letter reminding home front North Carolinians that the future of the Confederacy lies in the hands of “our young men” in the army. …. Remember my dear friends that nearly…