In western North Carolina, divided sentiments caused by secession and war lead to the formation of a new Baptist church – built on land donated by a northern transplant. The story begins in the 1830s, when Col. Lysander D. Childs, a young entrepreneur from Massachusetts, moved South and settled in Lincolnton, North Carolina in Lincoln…
This week’s Tennessee Baptist newspaper seeks assistance from Baptist women and merchants in the publishing of Bibles for Confederate soldiers. We do not believe in giving up to misfortune, or to cowering before difficulties, though they seem insurmountable. When it seemed impossible to print the Word of God in the South for our soldiers and…
Some Southern Baptist soldiers succumb to illnesses early in the war, leaving the battlefield behind and returning to the home front. Such is the case of Rufus Wiley Phillips, a graduate of Georgia Baptists’ Mercer University. Weeks prior, Phillips, a Junior 2nd Lieutenant in a Lowndes County (GA) unit, was discharged from Confederate service in…