Some Baptist contributions during the war years take place away from battlefields. Words themselves are powerful, ever more so as the war nears the one year anniversary of the firing upon Fort Sumter. Perhaps the most notable moment this month among Baptists of the North occurs on a Wednesday night at the First Baptist Church…
Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index today publishes a letter from a Georgia Baptist army missionary stationed at “Camp Brown (near Savannah).” The camp in question may have been south of Savannah and north of St. Simons Island. The Confederate’s Fort Brown at St. Simon’s Island, about sixty miles south of Savannah, weeks earlier was abandoned when…
Among Baptists of the South, Primitive Baptists are less likely to speak of the war and the Confederacy in church records and from pulpits. But Primitive Baptist attention to their faith heritage of separation of church and state does not prevent some from serving in the Confederacy. Amos Dickerson is a Primitive Baptist layman and…