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Confederate Soldiers

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 22, 1863

Comprised of many Christians of differing denominations who are thrown together in military service, the Confederate Army at times harbors within its ranks a variety of religious tensions. One particular religious practice is a flash point of controversy: communion. Each denomination’s way of doing communion is a bit different, and Baptists are no exception (other…

April 22, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 31, 1862

Candles burn late into the night, signifying the coming of a new era in American history: “freedom’s eve,” the beginning of the exodus story of African slaves. Northern free blacks and abolitionists, as well as thousands of freedmen in Union-controlled areas of the South, unable to sleep in anticipation of the morrow’s Emancipation Proclamation, gather…

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

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 20, 1862

Southern Baptist foreign mission and Indian mission efforts have fallen by the wayside, spiritual casualties of the war. In their place is a now-intense focus on mission work among the Confederacy’s white men serving in the army. Believing they are called of God to save the army in order to save the nation, Baptist leaders…

December 20, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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