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Robert E. Lee

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 4, 1862

Today a new chapter in the war begins: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia begin their first invasion of Northern territory. The timing of the offensive is not coincidental. The Union’s Army of the Potomac is reeling from a rebuffed attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. U.S. President…

September 4, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Civil War era map of Marietta, Georgia

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 31, 1862

Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch commends four Georgia churches – including one Baptist congregation – for their public displays of patriotism: The correspondence which follows explains itself. We give it a place in our columns as showing the determined spirit with which the [various] religious denominations are resolved in the prosecution of the present war. It…

March 31, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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