Caroline Cowles Richards, a young lady living in Canadaigua, New York, has been maintaining a diary for ten years. Today she makes note of a significant day in the life of the First Baptist Church of her village: … went to the Baptist Church this evening to hear Rev. A. H. Lung preach his last…
The Baptists of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are doing their part to support the Union cause. As reported by today’s Philadelphia Inquirer: COL. GREGORY’S REGIMENT of Ninety-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, now at Camp Chase, on the Darby road, have received orders to march, and will strike tents to-day, and leave for Washington this afternoon. The officers and men…
The life of a Union soldier during the winter months is encapsulated in the diary of New Yorker, and Baptist, Judson Odell, of the 50th Regiment Engineers, New York Volunteers. Odell, during the first six days of this year, offers the following brief summary of his daily routines: Wednesday, January 1, 1862 In camp for…