Southern Baptists are now publishing religious tracts and New Testaments for soldiers by the thousands. The extensive nature of their soldier publications through the Baptist Colportage Board in Richmond, Virginia, is evident. As reported by the Richmond Times Daily Dispatch: Much good may be done in the progress of the present campaign by clergymen, as…
Although little battlefield action takes place this month, public emotions are running high North and South while military leaders acquire equipment and plot strategy. The Connecticut Hartford Daily Courant runs a synopsis of a story from New York’s Auburn Advertiser concerning an incident in Georgia: The Auburn Advertiser states that a man named Dunning, who…
Days prior to the first major battle of the Civil War at Manassas, nearly a thousand Confederate soldiers are encamped on the grounds of Virginia’s Frying Pan Baptist Church. Confederate soldier J.W. Reid, with the Fourth Regiment of the South Carolina Volunteers, sitting on the church grounds, writes a letter declaring that “I do not…