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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 28, 1865

Founded in 1638 under the leading of Roger Williams, the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island was the first Baptist congregation in the New World. In both religious and civic life, the early Baptists of Rhode Island, despite intense opposition from nearby colonial theocracies, chartered a course of freedom of conscience, religious liberty for…

May 28, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 15, 1865

At 7:22 a.m. comes the pronouncement: President Abraham Lincoln is dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet the evening previous. The body of Lincoln, the champion of liberty for all and first American president to be assassinated, is moved to the White House. Still at large and now in hiding, the killer, John Wilkes Booth,…

April 15, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 15, 1864

For weeks Union General William T. Sherman has been preparing for this moment. Today, he marches forth from Atlanta with 60,000 troops at his command, heading eastward to the Georgia coast and the important port city of Savannah. The massive military force, spread out some fifty miles north to south, is accompanied by some 2,500…

November 15, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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