Today Union raiders create havoc in Wright City, Missouri, a town in a border state evidencing mixed, vocal loyalties. Targeting buildings where Southern sympathizers are known to gather, the militia first strike the Baptist church, torching the meeting house. As the church blazes, the raiders move on to two local businesses, setting fire to a…
Nashville, occupied by the United States Army, has become a significant Union supply and medical center in the South. All the Baptist churches in the city have been appropriated by federal troops, and many, including Second Baptist Church, are serving as hospitals. Known as the “Prison Hospital,” it houses both Union and Confederate prisoners, the…
The war is not the only destructive force that sometimes causes harm to churches of the Confederacy. Weather can also be problematic. Today a tornado damages the First Baptist Church of Shelbyville, Tennessee. We are informed that Shelbyville was visited by another hurricane on last Saturday [7th] night, which blew down the Baptist Church, the…