Today a Northern Baptist missionary in France writes a letter to the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, referencing the war between the American states: First of all, will you allow me to say to you again how much your “life-and-death struggle” interests us. Yes, we remember that you are fighting the battle of freedom for…
Christmas is not yet a national holiday, nor do Baptists North or South recognize the day as either a holiday or a holy day. However, the era of modern Christmas celebrations is presaged with an illustration by illustrator and cartoonist Thomas Nast, who this holiday season publishes in Harper’s Weekly what is considered to be the…
Delayed for nearly a month, Union Commander Ambrose Burnside finally launches his plan to cross the Rappahannock River, drive the Confederates from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and proceed south to Richmond. The first step of his plan requires the army engineers to construct pontoon bridges because the river is too wide and too deep to ford. In…