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Map of Virginia 1860s

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 15, 1865

As the year draws to a close and a week following the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, few white Southern Baptists in state newspapers bother to discuss the advance of freedom in America. Rather, today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald contains articles about a variety of other items and issues. Temperance is…

December 15, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: Feburary 27, 1865

While only minor skirmishes occur this day, in Virginia Union General Ulysses S. Grant orders Major General Phil Sheridan‘s force of some 10,000 cavalry to move south of Winchester on a mission to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad and James River Canal. In addition, Sheridan is tasked with capturing Lynchburg, if possible. Indeed, with Sherman…

February 27, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 30, 1864

The Civil War has raised a host of issues for white Baptists of the South, a largely rural people who, echoing the early frontier ethos of their spiritual ancestors, frame religion as personal piety rather than social responsibility. Local church minutes of the 1850s and 1860s are often concerned with personal sins such as card…

September 30, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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