By the time of the Civil War, Georgia’s Christian Index state Baptist newspaper had existed for almost four decades. Headquartered in Macon, and arguably the most influential state Baptist paper in the nation, from 1860-1865 the Index was owned and edited by Samuel Boykin, the son of a well-to-do physician-planter. Boykin was one of relatively…
The American Civil War lasted from April 12, 1861 (when Confederates attacked the U.S. Fort Sumter off the coast of South Carolina) to April 9, 1865 (Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia). In between, as many as 8,000 hostile engagements took place between Union and Confederate forces. Included…
The Baptist History & Heritage Society (BH&HS) communicates the story of Baptists through print and digital media, publications, and conferences. Bruce Gourley is the executive director of the Society. The BH&HS is a non-profit, national, independent, diverse organization of Baptist historians and other individuals and partner institutions who are committed to communicating the story of…