Sam Richards, an Atlanta businessman and Southern Baptist who fled the city for New York following Sherman’s capture of the city, today arrives back in Atlanta. Like many other middle class white Southerners (of whom there are relatively few, actually) who did not serve during the war, whether having temporarily lived in the North or…
Today the Little River Baptist Church resumes services, having not held worship services since October 1861. The Little River congregation is one of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of white churches whose members have the resources to resume services in Alabama this summer. Others are not so fortunate, having been permanently shuttered during the war. Autonomous black…
In South Caroline a new Baptist church is formed this day: the First Baptist Church of Inman (as it is later named). A season of revival following the war provides the impetus for the formation of the new congregation. A growing Temperance movement in Spartanburg County contributed to the revivalism. Historically, Baptists had not been…