Readers of weekly Baptist newspapers of the South (and there are more such periodicals based in the South than in the North) are fed a constant war-time diet of war-related editorials and commentary; first-hand accounts from Baptist soldiers, chaplains and missionaries; and political, economic and battlefield reports (reprinted or summarized) from secular newspapers. Far from…
Women in Baptist life of the South — reflecting southern life at large — play a support role to the male gender. Whereas Baptist women preachers and deaconneses in the mid-18th century were not uncommon in some southern colonies, such roles for females have long since been abandoned in Baptist life. In the present war,…
Southern women, living in a male-dominated culture, play limited – but important – roles during the war. From the home front to the hospitals near the battle fronts, women maintain their families and farms and assist in doctoring and offering comfort to soldiers. Baptist women are involved in the latter as much as are other…