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Boston First Baptist Church

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 3, 1862

Amidst the desolation and death of war, moments of beauty remain. Today, Benjamin Johnson Lang (1837-1909) makes his debut as a conductor in Boston with the city’s first performance with orchestra of Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht. Lang is the organist of one of the most musically-talented Baptist congregations in America: the first Baptist Church of…

May 3, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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