In today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald, an editorial offers a Southern Baptist commentary on “Relations Between Northern and Southern Baptists.” Of the recent war: “The conflict was unfortunate, terrible, and, to the South, most desolating. The fortune of war was against us. Our armies were overthrown, our fair heritage was overrun and wasted, immense quantities…
Another chapter closes on the Civil War this day with the capture of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Fleeing southward, Davis is overtaken by Union cavalrymen in south Georgia near the community of Irwinville. His capture takes place without incident. While significant, the event is somewhat anticlimactic. A traitor to his true country while having…
The reconstruction of Charleston, South Carolina is well under way nearly three months following the February 18 surrender of the city to Union forces. Prior to the fall of Charleston to the Federals, a number of black Baptist congregations were organized in Union-controlled areas of the South Carolina coast. Today, a “Negro Baptist” church is…