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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.
Confederate Capitol, Richmond, Virginia

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 13, 1865

The white citizens of Virginia are busy trying to re-order state, economy and industry. Today, following an opening prayer by Richmond Baptist minister Rev. Jeremiah Jeter,  the Virginia legislature in session reviews bills pertaining to the extension of debts, the repairing and resumption of railroads, the restoration of banks, and the re-stabilizing of various public…

December 13, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 11, 1865

Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch reports on the city’s orphans, of which Baptists have a particular interest: The orphan asylums of Richmond, both Protestant and Catholic, are stated to be in state of almost perfect destitution, with a very limited supply of either fuel, food or clothes. This is doubtless true, and the sufferings of the…

December 11, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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