Emphasis Preaching Journal

Dotted across the South are old cemeteries, community or family burial grounds. The weather-beaten remains of country churches are long gone. It is not uncommon to see the graves of Confederate Civil War soldiers, their tombstones listing their regiment along with the vital information of birth and death. Not infrequently one will find among the markers, in line with other family members, the headstone of a Union soldier. And within the family history is the story of a son who for the sake of conscience left home to fight against father or brother.