A letter “To Christians in the Army” from an anonymous Southern Baptist “layman” is published first in Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, and then today in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder. The letter, targeted at young soldiers, represents yet another voice in a larger chorus of Southern Baptist home front pleas for Christian Confederate soldiers to…
Baptist churches throughout the South have experienced disruptions due to the war. Today, two events in the Confederacy reflect the similar yet diverse challenges for Baptist meeting houses throughout the South. In Dalton, Georgia, the Baptist church (and other church houses) have been confiscated and are being used as Confederate hospitals for wounded soldiers. Today,…
The Alabama State Baptist Convention meets this month in Selma, “a beautiful city on the bluffs of the Alabama river.” During the conference “the principle subject, of course, was the moral culture of our soldiers,” as one participant, identified only as “N. P. Y.”, reports afterward. The same observer offers an account of the main…