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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 10, 1865

Born in 1816 near Sherburne, New York and orphaned at the age of five, as an adult John Anson Nash became a Baptist minister. First pastoring in New York, the American Baptist Home Mission Society in 1851 sent him to Fort Des Moines, Iowa. There he helped organize the First Baptist Church of Des Moines.…

September 10, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 29, 1865

The American Baptist Home Mission Society appoints Rev. H. M. Tupper as a missionary in the South, “leaving the particular field to be determined.” That field turns out to be Raleigh, North Carolina. Tupper and the mission society had earlier discussed the prospects in Raleigh. In so discussing, Tupper made clear his “desire to labor…

June 29, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 23, 1865

Today in the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C. the Grand Review of the Armies takes place. Beginning at 9:00 a.m. sharp on a bright and sunny day, some 80,000 soldiers from the Union Army of the Potomac parade through the streets to the cheers of politicians, officials and citizens, including president Andrew Johnson, standing alongside…

May 23, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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