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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 6, 1864

Union General William T. Sherman is at work organizing his headquarters and operations in Atlanta. A cloud of apprehension and uncertainty hangs over citizens who yet remain, their fate resting in the hands of the despised enemy general. Meanwhile, celebrations in the North continue over the Union’s capture of Atlanta, exceedingly so in Washington, D.C.…

September 6, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 18, 1864

This month the Southern Carolina Baptist Confederate newspaper applauds the fact that Greenville Baptist Female College is filled to capacity. Traditionally a finishing school for young ladies–reinforcing the Southern view of women as homemakers whose role is that of faithful wife and mother–the prolonged, bloody war adds a second dimension to women’s place in the…

June 18, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 10, 1864

Peter Barrow was born a slave near Petersburg, Virginia in 1840. As a child he was taken to a plantation in Alabama. Earlier this year, perhaps when Union naval and army forces invaded and gained control over the Mobile Bay area in February, Barrow, now a young man, managed to escape. Fleeing to Vicksburg, this…

March 10, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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