The war may be over, but many Southern Baptist preachers remain opposed to the “fanaticism” (a common Southern word to describe abolitionism) of Baptist preachers of the North, particularly now that slaves have been emancipated, thereby effectively destroying the slave-driven economy of the South. This month a battle of essays plays out in the Kentucky…
In the Treaty of Doaksville in Indian Territory, Confederate Native Americans surrender this day. As stated in the treaty, the Choctaw Nation, allies with the Confederacy during the war, “do agree at once to return to their respective homes and there remain at peace with United States, and offer no indignities, whatever, against the whites…
Today Edward Ellis (1843-1892), Baptist minister, musters out of the United States Army. A native of Wales, Ellis with his family emigrated to America in 1850 and settled in Waukesha County, Wisconsin in 1855. “In the summer of 1857 he gave his heart to Christ and being thoroughly imbued with the principles of the Baptist…