Letters from soldiers and army missionaries are published weekly in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder. The letters serve to keep readers informed of life in the Confederate camps and hospitals. Missives that report good news are especially welcome. Even letters that criticize the sins so abundant in the army camps, or tell of death and…
In the midst of a war pitting two opposing views of God, the Bible and Christianity against one another, journalist Samuel Clemens in Nevada adopts the pen name of Mark Twain. Following the war, Twain gains fame as a humorist. He also becomes known as a satirist and critic of Christianity and the Bible. While…
Baptist minister and soldier J. J. Hyman is serving as a chaplain in the 49th Georgia Regiment, a unit under the command of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The troops have been in winter quarters for several months now, awaiting the battles that are to come in the spring. For chaplains, the temporary settling of…