News of the Union occupation of Nashville is filtering throughout the South, accompanied by no little alarm. Days will pass before the Baptist press is able to comment on this unfortunate turn of events for the Confederacy. At the moment, however, a currently circulating editorial by Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, offers…
This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a correspondent in the 1st Regiment of N. C. State Troops, identified as J. H. F. The correspondence echoes what many other Baptists in the Confederate army are saying: the South’s soldiers, by and large, are far from being Christian men. I am alone in…
An anonymous North Carolina Confederate soldier, stationed in that state’s Camp Gatlin, writes to a Baptist newspaper, under the pen name of “Khan,” of his experience in camp this winter (such pseudonymous correspondence directed to public consumption is not uncommon during the war). Acknowledging that he and his fellow soldiers “are accused of forgetting the…