Today Joseph Moses Perryman, future chief of the Creek Nation and future Baptist, enlists in the Confederate Army in Company H First Creek Regiment of Mounted Volunteers. Joining many other Creek Indians who serve in the Confederate Army, Joseph remains in uniform for the duration of the war. Born in 1833 to the grandson of…
Today, Sunday, is a national Confederate Day of Thanksgiving, as proclaimed by the Confederate Congress on July 22, the day after the great victory at Bull Run / Manassas. The Congress has asked churches throughout the land to devote the day to thanking God and asking for God’s continued blessing upon his chosen nation: Resolved,…
Isaac Ball Feagin (1833-1900, born in Jones County, Georgia) is a merchant in Midway, Alabama, following a stint as deputy sheriff of the county (Barbour). He is of the Baptist faith. Today the Midway Guards of the Fifteenth Alabama infantry – which Feagin helped organize at the beginning of the war and was elected its…