The small community of Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky, finds itself in the midst of a tug of war between Confederate and Union forces. Crab Orchard is under the control of the United States, but today, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan’s Cavalry, the First Kentucky, burns the Dix River Bridge near the town and sets…
This month the Siloam Baptist Church of Greene County, Georgia meets and does something unusual for Baptist churches of the South during the war: they formally discuss the death of a soldier member. Baptists, long accustomed to not allowing the outside world to infiltrate worship services and business meetings, typically do not officially discuss in…
Many white Southern Baptists do not mince words when excoriating the United States, as one example in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder amply demonstrates. Mr. Ely, a Federal Congressman, who, our readers will recollect, was captured at the battle of Manassas and for some time confined in Richmond, as a prisoner of war, was…