Baptists of the North continue celebrating U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s decision to emancipate African slaves. The Philadelphia Baptist Association — the oldest Baptist association in America, founded in 1707 — joins in a stream of praises for the president’s actions by writing a letter to the Lincoln administration. Quoting scripture, evidencing patriotism, and claiming the…
The Union presence, strong in the Southwest following months of steady advances, is contested by the Confederacy. Today, some 22,000 Confederate soldiers attack the 23,000 soldier strong Union fortification at Corinth, Mississippi, but to no avail. The defeat blunts Confederate efforts to drive into Union-controlled western Tennessee. Meanwhile, September’s bloody Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg,…
The war challenges Baptist higher education throughout the Confederacy. Already on the rise in the decade prior to the war and rivaling Methodist efforts, Baptists of the South, despite the national conflict, are yet evidencing some scholarly energy. This weeks Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph reports: Waco University, under the direction of the Baptists, opens its present…