Today the Chattanooga Campaign begins. Straddling the Georgia border, the town is strategic for both the Confederacy and the Union, the latter of which has held the town for over two months. Union forces, however, are confined to the city as Confederates control the mountains to the southwest and east, effectively blockading the Tennessee River…
News of the revivals among Baptists of the South are not confined to Baptist newspapers only. The nightly meetings at two of Richmond’s Baptist congregations merit mention this week in the Richmond Daily Dispatch: Revival meetings among Baptists are attracting sizable numbers of attendees. A protracted Meeting is being held every night in the Second…
In churches throughout both nations, soldier wives worship and wonder–wonder if their husbands will one day return safely. Outside, the weather is cold, warning all of impending winter. Philadelphia is “very cold and dreary,” relates Emilie Davis, an African-American young woman who today attends church services. Her concerns are for the many blacks for whom…