Of the hundreds of escaped slaves in South Carolina and Georgia fleeing to Union-controlled Port Royal Island, South Carolina, many are Baptists. While the stories are joyful in that freedom is obtained, there are often elements of hardship and sadness in the journey away from captivity, as U.S. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, abolitionist and the…
This week Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, speaks harshly of the growing problem of Confederate Army deserters. The evil of straggling from our army has reached such a magnitude, that it becomes us all to cry out against it and as far as possible to abate it. Each community should hunt up…
North Carolina Baptists this week read an account of the faithfulness of three faithful young men from their state who are serving in the Confederate Army. In the 60th Regiment of N. C. Troops there are three young members of the Berea Baptist Church. These brethren have had but few opportunities of attending public worship…