A North Carolina Baptist minister this week rallies the faithful to their patriotic duties, via a stirring newspaper commentary. At a public meeting in Albermarle county, Virginia, the county in which President Jefferson lived and died, the people passed these resolutions: 1. To pay all their tax in kind. 2. To take another tenth from…
North Carolina Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham is making diligent efforts to place subscriptions of his weekly newspaper into the hands of North Carolina’s Confederate soldiers in an effort to evangelize and encourage spiritual growth. At the same time, there are conflicting reports of Confederate camp life this winter season. Some soldiers and observers…
Readers of this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index learn of the latest news from Confederate army missionary Jesse H. Campbell, who is serving along the Georgia coast, an area increasingly threatened by the nearby presence of Union army troops and Union naval ships. Savannah, Feb. 17, 1863 Dear Bro. Boykin:–As some of your readers may…