As publicly and repeatedly affirmed by both North and South, slavery is the cause of the present Civil War, preceded in 1845 by the creation of the Southern Baptist Convention in defense of African slavery as God’s will. Now, more and more slaves are taking emancipation into their own hands, fleeing their masters and seeking…
Days prior to the first major battle of the Civil War at Manassas, nearly a thousand Confederate soldiers are encamped on the grounds of Virginia’s Frying Pan Baptist Church. Confederate soldier J.W. Reid, with the Fourth Regiment of the South Carolina Volunteers, sitting on the church grounds, writes a letter declaring that “I do not…
This month one of the leading Baptists of the South forms a Confederate company in Athens, Georgia: The Mell Rifles, Co. D, Cobb’s Legion Infantry, was raised in Athens, GA, in July 1861, by Patrick Hues Mell, Baptist Minister and Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia. After Mell resigned due to his wife’s death,…