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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 29, 1864

In Virginia, Union cavalry raiders continue their retreat to safety following several weeks of partially successful attempts to disrupt Confederate rail lines. Today they are surprised yet again by an unexpected encounter with a contingent of Confederate forces in what becomes known as the First Battle of Ream’s Station. Outnumbered about 7,000 to 4,000, Federal…

June 29, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Thomas Hill Watts

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 9, 1862

Today Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Thomas Hill Watts, a prominent Baptist layman in the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama, to the position of attorney general in his cabinet. Unlike the United States, the Confederate States of America never establishes a Supreme Court. In the absence of such a national judicial body, the attorney…

April 9, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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