The Southern Baptist news beat goes on today in the form of editorials and commentary in the Georgia Baptist Christian Index that are intended to bolster the spirits of the Confederate faithful. One editorial extols the unparalleled nature of the revivals in the Confederate Army. Never before have their been such meetings, such sermons and…
An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index article speaks to the “present situation,” that is, the challenges to the Confederate cause in recent months. He who can view our present “Situation” without an intelligent degree of soberness, is certainly dead to a just appreciation of the crisis. Beyond a doubt perils of an…
Today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper publishes the obituaries of two ministers whose lives were taken earlier in the war. Both were pastors of churches in the state’s Reedy River Association. REV. R. B. HALK. A member of New Harmony Church, licensed in 1859. He was sent to school two years under the guardianship of…