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Baptists and the American Civil War: February 13, 1864

Sagging Confederate fortunes weigh heavily on the minds of many white Southerners. Yet for others, resolve and determination grows with each setback. Today in Oklahoma yet another military setback steels the resolve of the many ardent Confederates. In what becomes known as the Battle of Middle Foggy, 350 federal Cavalrymen under Union Major Charles Willets…

February 13, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 17, 1863

An editorial in this week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald posits that if everyone in the Confederate States would simply believe the biblical gospel, then Southern troubles would “vanish into air.” Lamenting the lack of gospel belief in the North, the writer makes no bones about the true gospel being that of racial purity–white supremacy and…

November 17, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 11, 1863

Pride in the Confederacy among white Southerners is evident in today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper. When the second temple of Jerusalem was erected, the contrast of its limited dimensions with the amplitude and splendor of the first, affected the old men, who remembered it, and they wept. Intent on the material structure, they thought…

November 11, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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