The United States is now interring prisoners of war in Camp Douglas near Chicago. The city also sends many soldiers to fight for the Union. Today, the ladies of Chicago’s First Baptist Church display their patriotic side, as noted in the Chicago Daily Tribune: On the morning of the 3d inst., a committee of ladies…
Many Southern Baptist men are now soldiering for the Confederacy. Army life is far from easy: danger, hunger, illness, exposure to the elements, and death are all constant worries, although secondary–in the minds of preachers–to the ever-present specter of sin. Most Baptist churches in the South never refer, in their church records, to their soldiers…
Not all Confederate Baptist soldiers live exemplary lives in the camps, as noted by one Methodist soldier. “. . . I have been very bad off for a few days, but this morning I feel better. I am yet in the hospital but don’t know how long I will stay here. I have been here…