From North Carolina’s 56th Regiment, a Baptist Confederate soldier writes of his unit’s recent movements and the challenges of reaching his fellow soldiers for Christ. His letter is published in today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder. Dear Bro. Hufham:–Though I am unaccustomed to writing for publication, I will solicit a small space in your columns, believing…
Today a North Carolina army missionary, a minister working to distribute Christian literature among North Carolina’s confederate soldiers, from Goldsboro (east of Raleigh) pens a letter reminding home front North Carolinians that the future of the Confederacy lies in the hands of “our young men” in the army. …. Remember my dear friends that nearly…
This week Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, speaks harshly of the growing problem of Confederate Army deserters. The evil of straggling from our army has reached such a magnitude, that it becomes us all to cry out against it and as far as possible to abate it. Each community should hunt up…