Today’s Battle of Savage’s Station marks the latest in a string of battles collectively known as the Seven Days Battles. Union forces, led by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and outmaneuvered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, are now falling back from their positions near Richmond. Lee attempts to press his…
The war transforms thousands of churches in the South, one of which is the home church of the woman destined to be the most famous Southern Baptist woman of all time: Lottie Moon (1840-1912). Today, the Scottsville Baptist Church of Virginia opens its doors–not necessarily by choice–to ill and wounded Confederate soldiers. Impressed by the…
Not all young Southern Baptist men march off to war. Twenty-six year old John Lemuel Carroll of North Carolina, baptized as a Baptist at the age of nine, is a licensed and ordained minister and a student at the University of North Carolina. Rather than join the army, as have most of his fellow students,…