Today the Chattanooga Campaign begins. Straddling the Georgia border, the town is strategic for both the Confederacy and the Union, the latter of which has held the town for over two months. Union forces, however, are confined to the city as Confederates control the mountains to the southwest and east, effectively blockading the Tennessee River…
From the presidency of Thomas Jefferson to the present, many Christians in America — including many Baptists of the South since the commencement of the present war — have complained of the United State’s founding as a secular nation. Movements to rewrite the Constitution as a Christian document, and to forbid Sunday mail delivery —…
News of the revivals among Baptists of the South are not confined to Baptist newspapers only. The nightly meetings at two of Richmond’s Baptist congregations merit mention this week in the Richmond Daily Dispatch: Revival meetings among Baptists are attracting sizable numbers of attendees. A protracted Meeting is being held every night in the Second…