In and around the yard of a pacifist Baptist church, the bloodiest one day battle in American history unfolds today: the Battle of Antietam. Built in 1852 by German Baptist farmers, the Dunker Church on a hill near Sharpsburg, Maryland houses a peace-loving congregation of six to eight farm families. There is nothing peaceful about…
This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reports on a discussion of an unusual topic at the recent “Ministers and Deasons’ Meeting” of the state’s Central Baptist Association: extortion. Some white Christians of the Confederacy, in seeking to determine why God has not yet given victory to his chosen nation and instead is allowing the war…
As Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Maryland continues — albeit with spirited opposition from Union General George B. McClellan and invoking the anger of many Marylanders — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, from the White House, hopes for the best. Lincoln, however, is not inactive as he waits for encouraging news from Maryland. For…