Today at the Grove Hill Baptist Church in Alabama, in a formal ceremony the flag of the 24th Alabama Infantry (Co. E. Dickinson Guards) is presented to the company. Confederate flag presentation ceremonies held in churches, Baptist and otherwise, are not unusual, as many white southern Christians are patriotic Confederates, while belief in the Confederacy…
The Chattahoochee Baptist Association in north Georgia meets this weekend. The war is on the minds of delegates, who craft and affirm by vote a special report on “State and Country” that reads: “Whereas, Abraham Lincoln is endeavoring to subjugate the Southern states contrary to the Constitution which he has taken an oath to carry…
Formed only one year earlier, the Mississippi Baptist Association, meeting at Mars Hill, offers “fervent prayers … to God on behalf of our beloved country,” and adopts a resolution regarding the war: “Resolved, That Saturday before the first Lord’s day in November be recommended to the churches composing this Association as a day to be…