In Beaufort, South Carolina, citizens and soldiers wait anxiously for federal warships off the coast. “No Fleet yet, off Port Royal,” reports Thomas R S Elliott to his father. Batteries are being laid out, cannons put in place, a fort on Ladies Island is now finished, and the arrival of Dunnovants Regiment is anticipated. The…
As publicly and repeatedly affirmed by both North and South, slavery is the cause of the present Civil War, preceded in 1845 by the creation of the Southern Baptist Convention in defense of African slavery as God’s will. Now, more and more slaves are taking emancipation into their own hands, fleeing their masters and seeking…
This month one of the leading Baptists of the South forms a Confederate company in Athens, Georgia: The Mell Rifles, Co. D, Cobb’s Legion Infantry, was raised in Athens, GA, in July 1861, by Patrick Hues Mell, Baptist Minister and Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia. After Mell resigned due to his wife’s death,…