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Baptists and the American Civil War: July 25, 1865

Bethel Baptist Institutional Church of Jacksonville, Florida, the oldest Baptist church in the state, is claimed by both white and black members. As related by one historian: “Instituted in 1838 by James McDonald and Ryan Frier, who served as co-pastors, Bethel Baptist’s congregation numbered six charter members including two slaves called Bacchus and Peggy.  Church…

July 25, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 18, 1865

Josephus Shackelford (1830-1915) of Moulton, Alabama today enters the Baptist newspaper business. From the 1850s to the present he has pastored a number of churches in the Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama region, while also teaching at various small Baptist institutions. He also served in two wars, the War with Mexico and the Civil War. Of…

July 18, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 16, 1865

This month Thomas Henderson Pritchard (1832-1896), a Confederate chaplain during the war and more recently the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Raleigh, North Carolina, is called as pastor of First Baptist Petersburg, Virginia A native of North Carolina and graduate of Baptists’ Wake Forest College, a young Pritchard switched from his law studies…

July 16, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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