Southern Baptist newspapers during the war publish articles on a wide variety of subject matter, both religious and non-religious. And while many Baptists all too readily prefer to sort subjects into neat and clear sacred and secular categories, the war so intermingles the two that they often overlap or even fuse together in such a…
The Chowan Baptist Association of North Carolina meets and issues the following resolution in support of the Confederate States of America: Resolutions adopted by the Chowan Baptist Association, of the State of North Carolina, at its fifty-fifth annual session, on the 16th day of May, 1861. (1) Resolved, That this body concurs in the suggestion…
A mere twenty-four hours after Abraham Lincoln takes the U. S. presidential oath, the Confederate States of America, disdainful of the “black” U. S. president (as they call Lincoln), unveils the “Stars and Bars,” the first Confederate flag, while Texas formally accepts Confederate statehood. White Baptist reaction in the South is mixed. While Basil Manly,…