Thomas Hill Watts

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 23, 1862

Today’s Biblical Recorder, newspaper of North Carolina Baptists, notes a visit by Thomas H. Watts–Confederate Attorney General and prominent Baptist laymen of Montgomery, Alabama’s First Baptist Church–to Grace Street Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia for a colportage meeting (that is, a meeting focused on the printing and distribution of Bibles and Baptist literature to Confederate…