Joel Addison Turner, Editor, The Countryman

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 27, 1862

Baptists compete with Methodists in claims for the largest religious denomination in the Confederacy. Sometimes the competition is not exactly cordial, as is evidenced in today’s Georgia-based The Countryman newspaper. The Countryman is privately published by a wealthy Methodist slave owner, Joseph Addison Turner. The Methodist layman is not complimentary of new children’s periodicals published…