The annual Alabama Baptist State Convention continues today in Marion. Expressing concern about the availability of Bibles and other Christian literature to Confederate soldiers, delegates take up a collection of $219.75 to distribute Bibles, books and tracts among soldiers. They then pass a resolution: The Baptist General Convention having organized a system of Colportage by…
The Alabama Baptist State Convention convenes today in Marion, the first assembly of this body during the war years. Southern Baptist divine and Chaplain to the Confederacy Basil Manly, Sr. opens the meeting in prayer. As in other assemblages of Southern Baptist associations and state conventions this fall, war is uppermost in the minds of…
Today Jefferson Davis (a Kentucky native, like Abraham Lincoln) is elected as president of the Confederate States of America, following his service to this point as provisional president. The November election is confirmed in February, when electors from the Confederate States – each state having the same numbers of electors as they have members in…