Baptists and the American Civil War: September 5, 1861
Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports: The Rev. A. T. Spaulding, paster of the Berean Baptist Church, 24th Ward, Philadelphia, has resigned for the purpose, it is said, of going to the South. Two days hence, Samuel Richards records in his diary: We hear of Brantley and Spaulding Baptist ministers from Philadelphia returning to their Southern…