Free Street Baptist Church, Portland, Maine

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 3, 1862

The Union presence, strong in the Southwest following months of steady advances, is contested by the Confederacy. Today, some 22,000 Confederate soldiers attack the 23,000 soldier strong Union fortification at Corinth, Mississippi, but to no avail. The defeat blunts Confederate efforts to drive into Union-controlled western Tennessee. Meanwhile, September’s bloody Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg,…