Today, famous Confederate spy Belle Boyd is captured by Federal authorities and imprisoned in the Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC. Just eighteen years old, Boyd had captivated Federal officers with her charm while supplying important military intelligence to General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and his forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Jackson had penned a personal…
Many institutions of Southern Baptists, battered by the drain of human and capital resources due to the war, have been forced to shutter their doors. No where is this more evident than in South Carolina. Baptists of the Palmetto State, ardent supporters of waging war to preserve African slavery, remain committed to the Confederacy. Yet…
The South Carolina Baptist Convention continues meeting in its annual session at Greenville’s Furman University. Reports from army chaplains and missionaries are a highlight of the meeting. All the highlighted letters and summarized reports from the field (partially noted below) offer glowing accounts of spiritual hunger among Confederate soldiers. Rev. J. G. Landrum writes: “The…