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Tag Archives: august 1862

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 24, 1862

A recent letter from Confederate hero Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is now making the rounds of the Baptist press of the South.The correspondence serves to enhance his growing legend as the South’s righteous Christian warrior, a man who traces his love of the Bible to a Baptist church he attended in his youth. Head. Qrs.…

August 24, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: August 7, 1862

Defeated in their attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, the United States is all the more determined to emancipate African slaves and limit white freedoms in the South–so charges a Baptist editorial this week. Our enemies foiled in their plans of subjugation and disappointed in their expectations of easy conquest, like a wounded…

August 7, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 1, 1862

Georgia Baptists this week read about life in the Confederate capital of Richmond following the recent Confederate victory over U.S. General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, as described by an editorial in the Christian Index. Our capital is surely not a place for pleasure seekers, at this time. Crowded with visitors from all parts of…

August 1, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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