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Tag Archives: union soldier

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 28, 1864

Today Thomas C. Cheney, soldier in the First New Hampshire Voluntary Light Battery and a member of the First Free Baptist Church Manchester, New Hampshire, writes a letter to his sister, Melissa. As is often the case with soldier letters to home, the subject matter ranges all over. Interspersed with personal queries and notes regarding…

April 28, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 10, 1864

Peter Barrow was born a slave near Petersburg, Virginia in 1840. As a child he was taken to a plantation in Alabama. Earlier this year, perhaps when Union naval and army forces invaded and gained control over the Mobile Bay area in February, Barrow, now a young man, managed to escape. Fleeing to Vicksburg, this…

March 10, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 30, 1863

The long reach of a caring Baptist minister (a pastor and American Baptist missionary) is evidenced today in a letter written by a Michigan soldier in the Michigan 7th Infantry Regiment, Company I. Head Qrs 7th Mich Vols Near Raccoon Ford Va. Sept 30./63 Dear Mother I am very busy just now with my monthly…

September 30, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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