Georgia Baptists this week read about life in the Confederate capital of Richmond following the recent Confederate victory over U.S. General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, as described by an editorial in the Christian Index. Our capital is surely not a place for pleasure seekers, at this time. Crowded with visitors from all parts of…
Mundane events reveal interesting details of Baptist life in the Confederate capital of Richmond, such as the following news account: Bob, slave of Captain Jackson Warner, hired as nurse at the Baptist Female Institute, was taken in custody, on Saturday, and lodged in prison, by the Military police, for stealing a pocket-book containing $85 in…
Many white Southern Baptists do not mince words when excoriating the United States, as one example in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder amply demonstrates. Mr. Ely, a Federal Congressman, who, our readers will recollect, was captured at the battle of Manassas and for some time confined in Richmond, as a prisoner of war, was…