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Tag Archives: middle georgia

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 29, 1864

Today Union General George Stoneman makes his way south of Atlanta toward Macon, carrying out orders from General William T. Sherman to disrupt Confederate infrastructure and, hopefully, secure the release of Union prisoners in Macon and Andersonville. On both accounts, Stoneman fails. Two days hence, while attempting to withdraw to the safety of Union lines…

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

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 27, 1864

Today in Greene County, Georgia the Springfield Baptist Church of Greensboro is established. The founding of the congregation takes place at a time when many Baptist churches in middle Georgia are striving merely to keep their doors open nearly three years after the beginning of the Civil War. In the midst of such struggles, church…

January 27, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 21, 1864

The citizens of middle Georgia yet live far from any battlefield action, despite Union encroachments as far south as the state’s coastal islands and, since the fall of 1863, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Accordingly, the town of Macon, the region’s largest city, in recent months has become a hub of hospitalized Confederate soldiers, their numbers growing daily.…

January 21, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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