Each and every day, more Baptist men join the ranks of the Union and Confederate armies. Typically young men, they go to war for their respective countries for a number of reasons, including (respectfully) abolitionist and pro-slavery views, love for country, to be with comrades, a search for adventure, and an opportunity (for poor folk)…
Southern Baptist minister J. D. Hufham, editor of the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina, addresses his view of the current situation in the Confederacy as winter turns into spring and the second anniversary of the war nears. Winter is gone, and Spring is here. We feel it in the atmosphere and see it in the…
In Culpeper County, Virginia, site of 18th century Baptist struggles for religious liberty against the Anglican state church, a cavalry battle erupts today as U.S. Brig. Gen. William W. Averell leads 2100 mounted troops across the Rappahannock River to attack Confederate cavalry. Conf. Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee counter-attacks with 800 mounted men, not enough to…