The annual Alabama Baptist State Convention continues today in Marion. Expressing concern about the availability of Bibles and other Christian literature to Confederate soldiers, delegates take up a collection of $219.75 to distribute Bibles, books and tracts among soldiers. They then pass a resolution: The Baptist General Convention having organized a system of Colportage by…
The Alabama Baptist State Convention convenes today in Marion, the first assembly of this body during the war years. Southern Baptist divine and Chaplain to the Confederacy Basil Manly, Sr. opens the meeting in prayer. As in other assemblages of Southern Baptist associations and state conventions this fall, war is uppermost in the minds of…
Freedom finally arrives today for some African slaves, including many Baptists, of Port Royal, South Carolina. Following a four-day coastal siege held in check by stormy weather, a Union Navy fleet accompanied by soldiers overwhelms the meager Confederate defense, sending Confederate soldiers and white civilians fleeing inland and/or northward to Charleston. The “Day of the…