This month the members of Meadow Branch Baptist Church in North Carolina are presented with a certificate of baptism signed by Confederate chaplain (or perhaps army missionary) A. L. Stowe and indicating that three of the church’s soldier sons had been immersed and desired church membership. Soldiers William H. Trull, Thomas S. Trull and A.…
Circulating in the Southern Baptist press this week is a brief piece from a correspondent in the Confederate capital of Richmond who profiles a Baptist leader who has devoted himself to the “religious instruction of our slaves.” In the midst of wide spread indifference toward the religious instruction of our slaves, and the efforts of…
An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index compares “Religion North and South,” turning to the alleged witness of a Union chaplain to prove that Confederate soldiers are more righteous than their northern counterparts. The London Times, in its remarks upon the late judicious address put forth to the christians of the world, by…