This week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a recent letter from a soldier in the 22nd North Carolina Regiment. Letters from soldiers are eagerly read by home front families who constantly search for news in the camps and from the battlefields. Baptist soldiers’ interpretations of the war, including the religious aspects of army life,…
Despite the reversal of fortunes in the Confederacy, Southern Baptist leaders remain firm in their support of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. For his part, Davis often couches the war against the United States as a holy war, as he does yet again today in an address to soldiers via General Orders No. 19. Davis’s optimistic…
Southern Baptist periodicals waste few opportunities to criticize abolitionist efforts to provide education and social relief services for former slaves. Blacks, after all, are an inferior race incapable of intelligence. Their God-willed lot in life is bondage in the service of whites. Today’s Kentucky Baptist Western Recorder succinctly sums up the sneering contempt that most…