Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index today publishes a letter from a Georgia Baptist army missionary stationed at “Camp Brown (near Savannah).” The camp in question may have been south of Savannah and north of St. Simons Island. The Confederate’s Fort Brown at St. Simon’s Island, about sixty miles south of Savannah, weeks earlier was abandoned when…
Home front readers of the current Tennessee Baptist are provided with a humorous account of Confederate camp life, a story poking fun at what is otherwise a dreaded event: cholera. The following account is penned by an unnamed soldier: A correspondent writing from the regimental rendezvous, in Dallas county, Texas, gives the following spicy account…
Today is Sunday, the Christian Sabbath. As is often the case these on Sunday mornings during these troubling times, the subject of war – whether directly or indirectly, in large part or in passing – is mentioned from many Baptist pulpits, South and North. What does a typical Baptist church look like in the Confederate…