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Robert B. Headden

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 6, 1861

Robert Benjamin Headden (born 1838 in Cassville, Georgia into an Old Line English Baptist family), of Bartow County, Georgia, enlists with Philip’s Legion today. His first major action is in 1862 in the Seven Days Battle and the 2nd Battle of Manassas, at which he is wounded. Recovering, Headden fights in the battle of Fredericksburg…

July 6, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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