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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 25, 1863

In the war between the the slave-holding Confederacy and the evil abolitionist North, many Southern Baptist leaders are convinced that God will ultimately rescue his chosen nation, despite the defeats–now three months distant but no less agonizing–at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. An editorial in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index epitomizes this certitude. Truly our young Confederacy…