Dr. Francis Wayland, former American (Northern) Baptist leader, president of Brown University, pastor of First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island, and early anti-slavery advocate, passed away on September 28. Today’s New York Times publishes an obituary of the nationally-known Baptist. “Rev. Dr. FRANCIS WAYLAND, who was more than 28 years President of Brown University, was…
Born in Michigan in 1837, Lucius V. Lyon attended a Baptist school prior to enlisting with Company C, Sixth Michigan Infantry, August 20, 1862. Lyon fought under General Benjamin Butler in the western theater of the war, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge to Mobile, Alabama and back to New Orleans. During an engagement in…
The Civil War years were a time of innovation made necessary by a great conflict the likes of which the nation had never before experienced. Hundreds of thousands of wounded soldiers, North and South alike, led to unparalleled hospital construction, alongside advances in new medical techniques, methodologies and knowledge. In the world of weaponry, rifling…