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Tag Archives: revolutionary war

Card Playing in the Camps

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 7, 1862

Many Baptist churches throughout the Confederacy hold monthly business meetings this weekend, the first of the month. One of these congregations is the Van Wert Baptist Church in Paulding County, Georgia. Van Wert is the county seat of recently-created Paulding County. The county and town share a common story in terms of their names, the…

December 7, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Siege of Yorktown by Francis Schell

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 4, 1862

For the past month, Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac, en route to the Confederate capital of Virginia, has besieged Yorktown, Virginia. McClellan’s drive to Richmond, known as the Peninsula campaign (having begun March 17), has not proceeded as planned. Caution on the part of McClellan, the logistics of moving a…

May 4, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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