White Southern preachers, most of whom are loyal to the Confederacy, are being singled out for punishment by the United States government, should the North win the war. Or so claims one Southern Baptist newspaper editor. Our enemies encouraged, and made confident of success, by their recent victories, are trying to decide what to do…
This week, the editor of North Carolina’s Biblical Recorder assesses the perilous times at hand, referencing McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign. No one can deny that the present is a momentous period in the history of the South. The theatre of war has been narrowing down for some time past; the grand armies which, for the present,…
Fires burn brightly through the night, followed by a smoky sunrise over the town of Princeton, (present-day) West Virginia in Mercer County. (At the moment, West Virginia is in the process of official recognition as a state carved out of Virginia.) Princeton lies near the Virginia and Tennessee rail line, and is thus considered strategic…