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Texas Civil War Map

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 19, 1865

Today in Texas — the lone Confederate state whose governor, Sam Houston, had resisted secession — a new Baptist congregation is birthed. The new church is the Mount Calvary Baptist Church, later known as the First Baptist Church of Richardson. The congregation is established before that of First Baptist Dallas. Church records note that members…

December 19, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
General Robert E. Lee

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 2, 1864

The war, although perhaps dampening Baptist growth in the United States, has by no means halted the founding of new congregations. Many established within the past year are African Baptist congregations, as their church names note. Growth is also taking place in the Mid-West and the often-new cities in the far West. Among churches started…

May 2, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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