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Baptists and the American Civil War: March 3, 1864

White Southern Baptist anger at U. S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent proclamation allowing Northern Baptist ministers to occupy empty pulpits in the South continues to grow, knowing no bounds. A Baptist editorialist this week, letting his imagination run loose, plays the emotionally-laden “negro” card, accusing the Yankees of planning on putting negro preachers in Southern…

March 3, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: July 5, 1862

At times, war and religion mix uneasily in the South. Many Southern Baptists publicly and repeatedly frame the war as a holy conflict in which the Confederacy is God’s kingdom on earth, destined to prevail over the evil North. Yet others–sometimes the same individuals–lament that the war has brought about a lack of interest in…

July 5, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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