The Hudson River Baptist Association, South, of New York meets this day. The war is over, and the relief is palatable in Baptist state conventions and associations of the North. Death has touched many families and congregations. Baptists are thankful for the victory of the United States over the Rebellion, and ready to move forward…
Seven states and 180 cities following the funeral train’s departure on April 21 from Washington, D.C., Abraham Lincoln‘s body is buried today in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois in a specially built tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Son Willie’s coffin is laid next to that of his father. The only immediate family member is Lincoln’s…
Jonathan B. Fuller, a Union man, is one of many Easterners who headed west earlier during the war. Settling in the Kansas City area of Missouri, Fuller, a Baptist minister, set about ministering in churches in a state that, while far from the major armies and battlefields of the great conflict, is mired in a…