Jonathan B. Fuller, a Union man, is one of many Easterners who headed west earlier during the war. Settling in the Kansas City area of Missouri, Fuller, a Baptist minister, set about ministering in churches in a state that, while far from the major armies and battlefields of the great conflict, is mired in a…
Even as the clouds over the Confederacy grow ever darker–or perhaps because the future of the South looks so bleak–the veneration of the deceased Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson as a Southern saint is well underway. Having died less than a year ago, Jackson’s image is the subject of much debate among those who vie…
Readers of today’s New York Times learn of a meeting of the United States Christian Commission this week in the Baptist Church of Saratoga, New York. The Christian Commission, created in 1861, is an organizational collaborative effort of government social services and Protestant Christians that furnishes supplies, medical services, and religious literature to Union troops.…