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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 22, 1865

Today Edward Ellis (1843-1892), Baptist minister, musters out of the United States Army. A native of Wales, Ellis with his family emigrated to America in 1850 and settled in Waukesha County, Wisconsin in 1855. “In the summer of 1857 he gave his heart to Christ and being thoroughly imbued with the principles of the Baptist…

June 22, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 30, 1864

In the face of a grinding, drawn-out war in which the North by now has the decided upper hand, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, having been a Baptist in his youth, today composes a letter to three prominent northern Baptists – George B. Ide, James R. Doolittle, and A. Hubbell – offering further reflection on the…

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

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 23, 1863

Sarah Christie Stevens, 18 years of age, is a student at Wisconsin Female College in Fox Lake. She has a drive “to do great good in the world,” and her father and soldier brothers are financing (the latter from their United States Army pay) her education in the belief that she will fulfill her wishes.…

January 23, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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