Southern Baptists’ Foreign Mission Board, located in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, has been decimated by the war and forced to pull back from its foreign operations. Communication with missionaries on foreign fields is severed, while the ability of the Board to pay missionaries’ salaries has been compromised by both the lack of contact…
Baptists of the Confederacy turn to their state denominational newspapers not only for a Christian interpretation of the war, but also to keep abreast of army movements, the Southern economy, and much more. In today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, editor J. D. Hufham supplies his readers with a summary of “secular” news from Virginia.…
As the year 1862 draws to a close, A. E. Dickinson, army missionary and colporteur from Virginia, is singing the praises of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The general is much appreciated by Southern Baptists for his personal piety and his support of Baptist army mission efforts, both of which seem to be rubbing off…