The First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee, has experienced ups and downs during the past four years. When Nashville came under Union occupation in 1862, the church’s pastor and other ministers in the city refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, and were accordingly arrested. For several months during the year…
Among the Southern states, the Civil War ended the latest in Texas. With the defeat of the Confederacy, former and late Texas governor and Baptist layman Sam Houston turned out to be right in having refused to go along with secession, even though his refusal had led to his ouster from office mere weeks before…
Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch carries a report of a Confederate Senate committee critical of president Jefferson Davis‘ recent call for the arming of slaves in defense of the South. Calling the measure “radical in its character” and “repugnant to the prejudices of our people,” as well as “intimately affecting the organism of society,” the report…