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Tag Archives: southern confederacy

Confederate Camp

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 11, 1862

Confederate Army camp life perplexes Southern Baptists. While lamenting over the evils in the camps, they also relish the possibility of evangelizing the masses of southern men who are housed in cramped, crude quarters far away from home and hearth. Such an environment, some Southern Baptists contend, should make the South’s men more open to…

March 11, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Samuel Boykin

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 26, 1862

News of the Union occupation of Nashville is filtering throughout the South, accompanied by no little alarm. Days will pass before the Baptist press is able to comment on this unfortunate turn of events for the Confederacy. At the moment, however, a currently circulating editorial by Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, offers…

February 26, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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