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Baptists and the American Civil War: August 3, 1865

This day Albert R. Hicks, born in 1835 and a Michigan native, is among the many Union soldiers discharged from military service. Hicks enlisted in 1864 in the First Regiment, Michigan Light Infantry, Seventh Battery. Sent to Alabama, he was involved in the capture of Port Mobile, a turning point in the war during 1864.…

August 3, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 4, 1865

The aptly-named Lafayette Church (1816-1907) is a Baptist minister who during the war pastored the First Baptist Church of Alma, Michigan, when not soldering. A captain in Company D, 26th Michigan Infantry during the war, he was commissioned unit chaplain on April 2, 1864. Today he musters out of military service at Alexandria, Virginia. While…

June 4, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: November 29, 1864

As Sherman overruns Georgia and Lee is pinned down in Virginia, the Confederacy has placed great military hopes in General John Bell Hood‘s invasion of Tennessee. Hope, however, far distant from reality in the rapidly-sinking Confederacy, is not to be found in Tennessee as the Federals defeat the Rebels yet again, this time in the…

November 29, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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