Convening in Athens, delegates (all white, all male, and many slaveowners) to the annual Georgia Baptist Convention meeting issue a “Report of the Committee on the present political crisis,” which reads as follows: “Whereas, the state of Georgia, in the legitimate exercise of her sovereignty, has withdrawn from the Confederacy known as the United States…
Southern states are astir, forming militia regiments and seeking funding. Samuel Boykin, the editor of Georgia’s Baptist newspaper, The Christian Index, calls for “every freeman of Georgia” to “prepare to discharge his duty manfully.” Delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention, convening today in Athens, talk excitedly about their new nation and the battlefield clashes certain…
Thirteen days after the Confederacy fires on Fort Sumter and the Civil War begins, Virginia’s Richmond Fayette Light Artillery, consisting of four officers and 108 enlisted men, is mustered into state service.The unit is initially stationed at the Baptist College artillery barracks, and later participates in the Maryland campaign (under General Lafayette McLaw’s Division), before…