Males are not the only members of the white race suffering from the loss of privileges, properties and loved ones in the recent war. This week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald publishes an article entitled, “To Southern Women from a Southern Woman,” purportedly penned by an (anonymous) female. The audience, however, is not common white women,…
Thanks in large part to the efforts of Southern Baptists, Christian literature is proliferating in Confederate Army camps. Stories of the positive effect of such literature are now circulating in the Baptist press of the South, such as the following story told by an army colporter. One young man told me that he dated his…
The influence of Southern women upon Confederate soldiers bears upon the minds of Southern Baptists. Alcohol, identified as one of the greatest evils in camp life — and considered a catalyst for other evils — must be curtailed. Home front Southern Baptist ministers and denominational leaders look to women to save men from evil spirits.…