During the gloominess that hangs over a despondent Confederacy, many white southerners cling to the hope that the past can yet be restored into a glorious future. Samuel Boykin, editor of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index and since prior to the war a dreamer of a glorious future for the Confederate nation, obliges the persistent…
Dual Baptist narratives continue in South Carolina this month, intertwined yet divergent. Many white citizens (including Baptists) of Charleston, South Carolina, a city besieged by nearby Union naval forces since July, have fled inland and northward to Orangeburg. The roster of refugees, mainly women and children, continues to grow as winter looms. An area with…
The North Carolina Baptist Convention assembles at the First Baptist Church of Raleigh and passes a resolution on “the State of the Country.” The resolution is lengthy, offering commentary on the United States, Confederate States and the war, but especially dwelling upon the revivals within the Confederate Army. The close of another Conventional year finds…