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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 15, 1865

As the year draws to a close and a week following the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, few white Southern Baptists in state newspapers bother to discuss the advance of freedom in America. Rather, today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald contains articles about a variety of other items and issues. Temperance is…

December 15, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 19, 1864

The war does not put a damper on Southern Baptist revivals. The traditional revival season is August through October, the months reflective of harvest season, although some revivals take place in late July. Food crops are scarce in much of the South, but congregational evangelistic gatherings in meeting houses and outdoors are in no short…

August 19, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 3, 1864

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln imposes himself upon General Ulysses S. Grant less than his other generals. Nonetheless, in the midst of Northern frustrations with drawn-out trench warfare at Petersburg, last month’s rather close call in the form of the failed Confederate raid upon Washington, D.C. does expose some friction between the two men, who had…

August 3, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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