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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 23, 1865

Delegates to the Hiwassee United Baptist Association of Tennessee, in annual meeting in Roane County, discuss and debate the recent Civil War. The South’s role in the war is considered as that of the aggressor, but the association seeks distance from political conflict and “unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.” The question…

September 23, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 23, 1865

The second Sunday after Lincoln‘s death, many pulpits North and South, with the encouragement of U.S. President Andrew Johnson, focus on the president’s legacy. In the nation’s capital, the overflowing crowd at the First Baptist Church, through a sermon preached by pastor Dr. A. D. Gillette, remembers the president and absorbs lessons brought about by…

April 23, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 4, 1865

During the war years Southern Baptist elites have constructed a narrative of a Christian Confederacy and a Satanic Union, at least one to the point of labeling the abolitionist North as the “final Antichrist.” Abolitionist Christians—and that includes a seeming majority in the North by this point—are, according to this storyline, the very instruments of…

February 4, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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