In the South, the Virginia city of Fredericksburg is now living in the early days of what will prove to be a four month Union occupation. While the scene is peaceful on the surface, tension mingles with joy. White citizens are on edge, while liberated slaves receive food provisions from the U.S. commissary, the best…
Baptists of the South are conflicted about their own faith heritage of church state separation. They have enthusiastically embraced a Confederate Constitution that, much unlike the secular United States Constitution, invokes “the favor and guidance of Almighty God” upon the Confederate States of America. At the same time, Southern Baptist leaders have equated the Confederacy…
Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index today publishes a letter from a Georgia Baptist army missionary stationed at “Camp Brown (near Savannah).” The camp in question may have been south of Savannah and north of St. Simons Island. The Confederate’s Fort Brown at St. Simon’s Island, about sixty miles south of Savannah, weeks earlier was abandoned when…