The war now fully engaged, territories controlled by the Union and Confederate armies are fluid. Thus far, battles have been fought on Southern fields, and Union armies are gradually pressing southward. In much of the upper South and Tennessee, civilians live in somewhat of a no-man’s land, their towns and farms seesawing between Confederate and…
William R. Williams, prominent Northern Baptist pastor of Amity Baptist Church, New York, delivers the keynote address at this evening’s convening of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. The war is heavy on the minds, hearts and spirits of all present, and Williams offers no sympathy to the Southern Cause as supported by his fellow…
Since late January, the American Baptist Home Mission Society has been contemplating and planning for work among freedmen living under the protection of the Union Army in the coastal areas of South Carolina and beyond, inquiring “into their needs and the opportunities for religious work.” The Society’s leaders have since determined that missionaries and teachers…