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after 1861 received scant respect from their neighbors, and the government refused to recognize the validity of these
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The preachers at home were nearly all old or physically disabled men. Gray-haired old men made up the conferences, associations, conventions, councils, synods, and presbyteries. But to the last their spirit was high, and all the churches faithfully supported the Confederate cause. They cheered and kept up the spirits of the people, held society together against the demoralizing influences of civil strife, and were a strong support to the state when it had exhausted itself in the struggle. They gave thanks for victory, consolation for defeat; they cared for the needy families of the soldiers and the widows and orphans made by war. The church societies incorporated during the last year of the war show that the state relief administration had broken down. Some of them were,
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The Methodist Orphans' Home of East Alabama,
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The Orphans' Home of the Synod of Alabama,
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The Samaritan Society of the Methodist Protestant Church,
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The Preachers' Aid Society of the Montgomery Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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Bell Battery of Huntsville.