In Evansville, Indiana’s Baptist Lecture Room on Fifth Street and Chestnut Street, twenty-five Baptists gather this day to create a new black Baptist church, one of many formed this month in the wake of the end of the war. Most prominent of those present is Andrew L. Robinson, an antislavery attorney and Baptist layman. The…
More than a month has passed since the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. Some Texas troops, although having learned of Lee’s surrender, have thus far refused to lay down their arms. Today in the Battle of Palmito Ranch they surprise a contingent of Union forces en route…
Despite the earlier surrender of the Confederacy’s major armies and yesterday’s capture of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, many soldiers and chaplains yet remain in the field. Today William H. Whitsitt, future professor and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is relieved of his position as Confederate chaplain in the 4th Tennessee Cavalry. Whitsitt…