Baptists and the American Civil War: July 21, 1865
According to some sources, a new Alabama Baptist newspaper is established today with the first publication of the bi-weekly Christian Herald at Moulton. Josephus Shackelford (1830-1915) is the editor. From the 1850s to the present Shackleford pastored a number of churches in the Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama region, while also teaching at various small Baptist…