With the war officially over, hundreds of Confederate soldiers are paroled daily, effectively forgiven for their involvement in the rebellion against the United States and permitted to go home. Among Baptist soldiers paroled this day are F. W. Eason of South Carolina and James Harris of Georgia. Eason, baptized in 1858 by the venerable Basil…
While the main military action is now taking place in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia (none favoring the Confederacy), small skirmishes take place elsewhere. One such engagement happens this day at the Concord Baptist Church in Yazoo County, Mississippi. In the brief encounter, Confederate forces from Arkansas and the Union’s Second Wisconsin Calvary clash, with the…
The war does not put a damper on Southern Baptist revivals. The traditional revival season is August through October, the months reflective of harvest season, although some revivals take place in late July. Food crops are scarce in much of the South, but congregational evangelistic gatherings in meeting houses and outdoors are in no short…