Nashville, Tennessee’s second largest city (behind Memphis) and militarily exposed in the wake of the United States’ capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, has been vacated of Confederate soldiers in anticipation of the arrival of Union forces. The retreating Confederates burned down the city’s bridges, and some residents joined in the evacuation. One of…
As the war rages on in the contested state of Tennessee, death, even in the less contentious winter months, is now ever present in the city of Nashville. Today’s Tennessee Baptist speaks of Confederate anxiety, mourning and sacrifice as Union forces draw ever closer to the city: There is still a large number of soldiers…
Readers of weekly Baptist newspapers of the South (and there are more such periodicals based in the South than in the North) are fed a constant war-time diet of war-related editorials and commentary; first-hand accounts from Baptist soldiers, chaplains and missionaries; and political, economic and battlefield reports (reprinted or summarized) from secular newspapers. Far from…