Born in Michigan in 1837, Lucius V. Lyon attended a Baptist school prior to enlisting with Company C, Sixth Michigan Infantry, August 20, 1862. Lyon fought under General Benjamin Butler in the western theater of the war, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge to Mobile, Alabama and back to New Orleans. During an engagement in…
Some of the largest and wealthiest plantations in the South are located in Louisiana. While certainly not the largest, the Goldpoint Plantation in Bossier Parish, over 1,000 acres prior to the war, was worked by dozens of slaves. Like many slaveowners, Goldpoint’s owner sent his slaves to a nearby church, the Red River Baptist Church…
Northern Baptist minister Charles Henry Corey, a representative of the American Baptist Home Mission Society and active in preaching to Union troops and working among freedmen during the war, has in recent months assisted freedmen in establishing churches and schools. This month the Canadian native Corey returns to Charleston, where he had previously been stationed…