Readers of Southern Baptist newspapers are, by now, fed a steady diet of news regarding the religious condition of the Confederate army, and this week is no exception, as an article in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder testifies. The letters, which we have been publishing for weeks, will give our readers some notion of…
Baptist minister and soldier J. J. Hyman is serving as a chaplain in the 49th Georgia Regiment, a unit under the command of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The troops have been in winter quarters for several months now, awaiting the battles that are to come in the spring. For chaplains, the temporary settling of…
A letter “To Christians in the Army” from an anonymous Southern Baptist “layman” is published first in Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, and then today in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder. The letter, targeted at young soldiers, represents yet another voice in a larger chorus of Southern Baptist home front pleas for Christian Confederate soldiers to…