Today South Carolina Baptist minister William L. Curry, born in 1836, is appointed as the chaplain of 50th Georgia Regiment. A graduate of Furman University and with degrees from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (all in South Carolina), Curry is well educated. Ordained in 1860, he sought appointment as a…
North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham this week evaluates the status of the war from a Southern Baptist perspective. He wrongly surmises that Union Gen. John Pope’s Army of Virginia, currently located near Manassas, will probably not be engaged by Confederate forces “for several weeks” (Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, leading a…
Today is the sixth day of what becomes known as the Seven Days Battles.The day’s conflict is the Battle of Glendale, but is also known (in the tradition of naming battles by landmarks) as the Battle of Frayser’s Farm, Frazier’s Farm, Nelson’s Farm, Charles City Crossroads, New Market Road, or Riddell’s Shop. When the day’s…