James M. Pendleton is a well-known Baptist preacher and newspaper editor (assistant editor of the Tennessee Baptist) in Tennessee and among many other rural Baptists in portions of the South. He is also the author of an influential book, An Old Landmark Re-Set (Old Landmarks Revisited), published in 1856 and the figurehead volume advocating Landmarkism…
The times are defined by war, and Baptists do their part in seeking success for their respective governments. Today in Richmond, the Confederate capital, the Confederate States Senate meets, with opening prayer by the Rev. Dr. Seeley of the city’s Second Baptist Church. Far from the storied halls of national governments, today is much like…
Isaac Gray Woolsey–physician, surgeon, and Baptist layman–has been serving as a quartermaster in the Confederate Army. Today, he resigns that position and begins organizing Company C, Eighth Tennessee Confederate cavalry. The regiment is soon assigned to Gen. N.B. Forrest’s division. As his obituary recounts: With his command he participated in all the battles in which…