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…
Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown, a Southern Baptist layman, has evidenced an independent streak since the beginning of the war. Brown governs over a state whose citizens, most of whom are not slave owners, barely supported secession in early 1861. In this second year of war, Brown has demonstrated that he will protect the interests…
Today, Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, recently named commander of the District of West Tennessee, launches the Vicksburg Campaign, a Union offensive to seize total control of the Mississippi River by capturing the fortified river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. It will be months before Grant reaches Vicksburg, but the campaign will prove to be one…