Baptists and the American Civil War: September 6, 1862

Many extended Northern families send a number of male members to serve in the Union Army. Such is the case with the Barrage family of Massachusetts, a family of Baptists. Henry S. Burrage, born in 1837 in Fitchburg, graduated from Brown University (Providence, R.I.) in 1861, then enrolled in Newton Theological Institution (Centre, Mass.) on…

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 26, 1862

As battles rage on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Henry Martin Tupper, born in 1831 in Monson, Massachusetts, today graduates from American (Northern) Baptists’ Newton Theological Institution (otherwise known as Newton Seminary). The war may have seemed distant to Tupper during his studies at Newton, but within weeks of graduation, on July…

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