This month Thomas Henderson Pritchard (1832-1896), a Confederate chaplain during the war and more recently the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Raleigh, North Carolina, is called as pastor of First Baptist Petersburg, Virginia A native of North Carolina and graduate of Baptists’ Wake Forest College, a young Pritchard switched from his law studies…
Many churches of the South that found themselves in the war’s path shut their doors for the duration of the great conflict. Some churches closed to never reopen after the war, but others are re-assembling and trying to return to normal. Among the later is Maloney’s Spring Baptist Church of Syrmna, Georgia. The Maloney’s Spring…
On Hilton Head Island on the coast of South Carolina a convention of Colored Baptist churches assembles this day at Mitchelville. The South Carolina coast since 1862 has been home to tens of thousands of freedmen. The initial free blacks in the area were liberated during the war by the Union Army during the war…