Even as Baptists on the southern home front complain about the evils of army camp life, they eagerly look for evidence that the distribution of religious literature among soldiers is pushing back the spiritual darkness so rampant. One report from a Confederate colporter is making the rounds: A colporter, laboring among the Confederate forces in…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a North Carolina solider that touches upon many central themes of camp life: distance, death, religion, and vice. “A.H.C.” is stationed at Camp Pickens, Manassas, Virginia, with the 4th Regiment North Carolina State Troops. Bro. Hufham: It has been my privilege to read your paper occasionally,…
The Second Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia, announces a concert to raise funds to supplement the meager salary of a regiment of Confederate soldiers. As reported in today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch: Among the first who rushed to arms to repel the Yankees in their attempt to conquer Virginia, was a regiment of Kentuckians. They were…