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Baptists and the American Civil War: October 7, 1865

The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Association continues today. Gathered in the Bairds Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, the white Southern Baptist delegates in several resolutions address post-war changes in the South as pertaining to religion. It is “the sense of this organization and its earnest wish,” one resolution reads, “that the Southern Organizations…

October 7, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 6, 1865

Today the Georgia Baptist Association convenes in Oglethorpe County at Bairds Church. The association is the oldest of such Baptist bodies in Georgia. Today the gathering is called to order, followed by a sermon, singing, prayer and the reading of letters (correspondence) from “the Churches” of the association. Committees are also appointed, from which reports…

October 6, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: February 24, 1865

As the massive forces of Union General William T. Sherman approach North Carolina, word of their advance has reached Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, the army that is desperately trying to prevent Union General Ulysses S. Grant from reaching Richmond. With many southerners on the home front now ready for the…

February 24, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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