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…
Letters from soldiers and army missionaries are published weekly in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder. The letters serve to keep readers informed of life in the Confederate camps and hospitals. Missives that report good news are especially welcome. Even letters that criticize the sins so abundant in the army camps, or tell of death and…
Southern Baptist newspapers have not yet weighed in on the Emancipation Proclamation, but today’s edition of the secular Richmond Enquirer offers a few unkind words about Abraham Lincoln‘s legal freeing of Confederate slaves, calling it “the most startling political crime, and the most stupid political blunder, yet known in American history…Southern people have now only…