Confederate forces seem unable to catch a break. Today in Missouri, while in full retreat, Confederate Major General Sterling Price and his contingent of cavalry are attacked, yet again, by Union forces. The Second Battle of Newtonia witnesses yet another Confederate defeat, albeit with light casualties on both sides. Under the cover of darkness, the…
A North Carolina Baptist minister this week rallies the faithful to their patriotic duties, via a stirring newspaper commentary. At a public meeting in Albermarle county, Virginia, the county in which President Jefferson lived and died, the people passed these resolutions: 1. To pay all their tax in kind. 2. To take another tenth from…
Today the Pennsylvania Baptist Convention, assembled at Salem, reaches back to Roger Williams in declaring their unequivocal support–with the exception of one delegate–for the war against the Confederacy. Whereas, Tho history of Baptists is Interwoven with the history and triumphs of civil and religious liberty; and Whereas, Our national Government grew out of Baptist polity,…