INTRODUCTION Baptists and other white Americans North and South during the Civil War-era were unequivocal: secession, the existence of the Confederate States of America, and the Civil War were all the result of slavery, the immoral (or moral, depending on one’s race, political persuasion and/or geographic location) institution that served as the economic engine of…
Prior to this month, the only African American Baptist churches in the state of Missouri are located in St. Louis, Hannibal, St. Joseph, Jefferson City and (possibly) Lexington. Now, a new church joins this short list: the First Colored Baptist Church of Warrensburg. Many other black Baptist congregations are also birthed this month, including the…
Today a 10-day Confederate siege of Union-controlled Fayetteville, Arkansas comes to a quiet end. Fayetteville has been under Union control since September 1863. The state was reconstructed with a Union-loyalist government in January 1864, although Confederate forces, consisting primarily of cavalry forces and Rebel guerrillas, maintain influence and even control over certain portions of the…