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Baptists and the American Civil War: February 16, 1865

Marching upon Columbia, South Carolina’s capital, Sherman‘s troops discover that the Gervais Street Bridge over the Congaree River has been burned by retreating Confederate soldiers. Sherman orders Union artillery to target the railway station and the partly-constructed new state house. Amidst the firing, the Union general orders his troops northward, to the lone remaining bridge…