Today Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Thomas Hill Watts, a prominent Baptist layman in the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama, to the position of attorney general in his cabinet. Unlike the United States, the Confederate States of America never establishes a Supreme Court. In the absence of such a national judicial body, the attorney…
Today in Tennessee, Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Stephen Hurlbut arrive at Pittsburg Landing and move inland to Shiloh Church, a small log building. Three weeks hence, the Battle of Shiloh, a major conflict in the Western theater of the war, will take place around this small church. The church was built by United Methodists,…
Today at the Grove Hill Baptist Church in Alabama, in a formal ceremony the flag of the 24th Alabama Infantry (Co. E. Dickinson Guards) is presented to the company. Confederate flag presentation ceremonies held in churches, Baptist and otherwise, are not unusual, as many white southern Christians are patriotic Confederates, while belief in the Confederacy…