Robert Benjamin Headden (born 1838 in Cassville, Georgia into an Old Line English Baptist family), of Bartow County, Georgia, enlists with Philip’s Legion today. His first major action is in 1862 in the Seven Days Battle and the 2nd Battle of Manassas, at which he is wounded. Recovering, Headden fights in the battle of Fredericksburg…
Southern Baptists are ramping up production of tracts for Confederate soldiers through the Baptist Colportage Board in Richmond, Virginia. From today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch: A friend informs us that the Rev. M. D. Hoge, D. D., of this city, is now preparing a tract for general distribution among the Confederate forces, embodying just such advice…
As delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention depart Savannah, Georgia, to journey back to their homes, newspapers throughout the South report on the convention meeting. The Richmond Times Dispatch’s reporting of the Savannah gathering focuses on statements by SBC president Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore, Maryland: Let me but utter…