Rev. F. N. Barlow (born 1818), pastor of the Baptist Church in Halfmoon, New York, today enlists as a First Lieutenant in Co H 115th New York Infantry. Known as the “Iron Hearted Regiment,” the 115th New York is organized August 26, 1862 at Fonda, New York, mustering out on June 17, 1865. In the…
This month the Siloam Baptist Church of Greene County, Georgia meets and does something unusual for Baptist churches of the South during the war: they formally discuss the death of a soldier member. Baptists, long accustomed to not allowing the outside world to infiltrate worship services and business meetings, typically do not officially discuss in…
For months, many Northern Baptists have been agitating the U.S. Congress to pass a confiscation act that will permanently free African slaves. Today, their wishes, as well as those of many Northern Christians at large, are granted, as Congress passes the Second Confiscation Act that is, in effect, an emancipation proclamation that grants permanent freedom…