Confederate citizens and soldiers watch in dismay as a Union naval squadron, led by Flag-Officer David G. Farragut, today sails up the mouth of the Mississippi past forts Jackson and St. Philip. The fall of New Orleans is inevitable; surrender takes place on April 28. Union occupancy of the Confederacy’s largest city begins May 1,…
Several items in this week’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder offer perspective on Southern Baptist views of the nearly one-year old war. The extent of white Southern Baptist hatred of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is evident: The Church bells of the Southern cities are rapidly going to the foundry to be converted into cannon.…
With the commencement of warfare, Baptist newspapers in Georgia and Virginia, among others, advocate strongly for the Confederacy. Establishing a pattern that will remain in the months and years ahead, Georgia’s Christian Index and Virginia’s Religious Herald expend much ink reprinting war news from southern secular newspapers and editorializing on behalf of the Confederacy. Today,…