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Daily Archives: July 20, 2011

Stone Church, Centreville, Virginia

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 20, 1861

In northern Virginia Brig. Gen. Joe Johnston’s Confederate Army and Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell’s Union Army jockey for position as they prepare for battle. On both sides are Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Jews … and Baptists. The men of faith within the armies, as the others, carry weapons and are ready to kill the enemy…

July 20, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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