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Daily Archives: April 8, 2011

Joseph Brown, Governor of Georgia, and a Southern Baptist

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 8, 1861

Georgia’s Baptist governor, Joseph Brown (illustration), continues to systemically take over federal lands and buildings in his state. Today, he ordersĀ  the state militia to take possession of the United States Mint in Dahlonega. The north Georgia mountain town is the place were gold was first discovered in America. Also today, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln,…

April 8, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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