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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 8, 1861

Today, Sunday, the 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry seeks a suitable place on the upper North Carolina coast to construct a battery. The effort is part of larger campaign by Confederate forces to hurriedly secure their coastlines in the face of a superior Union Navy. Alva Spencer, a Mercer University graduate, records a rather humorous…

September 8, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
First Baptist Church Forsyth, Georgia

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 17, 1861

“These days are fraught with many blessings,” Julia Stanford, a teacher in Forsyth, Georgia comments this week. “Would that we had heart to appreciate them – Truly the lines have fallen in pleasant places. God’s ways are far above our poor ways.” Against the backdrop of distant battlefields and a cloudy, rainy week at home,…

August 17, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
First Baptist Church Forsyth, Georgia

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 1, 1861

In Northern Virginia, Confederate activity is stirring on the grounds of Frying Pan Baptist Church. Colonel Philip St. George Cocke reports, “Major Wheat’s Louisiana First Special Battalion was added to my command and stationed at or near Frying Pan Church, and Captain Alexander’s troop of cavalry also added to Terry’s at the same place. Subsequently…

August 1, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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