Baptists of the South are hovering between two differing visions yielding a common, widely hoped-for result: one in which the current revivals in the Confederate Army appease their nation’s God who in turn brings an end to recent battlefield losses, drives the northern barbarians from Southern soil, and blesses the Confederacy with victory, peace and…
Southern Baptist newspapers during the war publish articles on a wide variety of subject matter, both religious and non-religious. And while many Baptists all too readily prefer to sort subjects into neat and clear sacred and secular categories, the war so intermingles the two that they often overlap or even fuse together in such a…
Runaway inflation, coupled with the lack of hard cash, has made life extremely hard for most common folk in the Confederacy. Food stuffs and other staples of life, items that are now cost-prohibitive for many home front citizens, are so expensive as to often be out of reach in terms of acquiring an adequate supply…