With the coming of winter and in the wake of months of battlefield losses and home front economic hardships, despair has descended upon the Confederate States of America. Is there any hope of winning the terrible war waged against the abolitionist North? A brief commentary in the Georgia Baptist Christian Index , entitled “The Delusive…
By the waning days of 1863 the trickle of Confederate deserters has turned into a relative flood. Government officials and military officers alike grow increasingly concerned that the South will not have enough manpower to overcome the superior numerical advantage of the United States. Most deserters who manage to escape recapture spend the rest of…
The Bethel Baptist Association of Georgia, a fellowship of churches in the southwestern portion of the state, convenes today at the Americus Baptist Church. As with other Baptist associations meeting this fall, the war is never far from the minds of delegates. Several of the reports and resolutions offered and approved by delegates mention the…