The California State Convention of the Colored Citizens meets this day in Sacramento. Many Baptists are present. The convention’s president, Frederick G. Barbadoes, opens the day’s proceedings with these words: “For the fourth time the colored citizens of this State are assembled in Convention for the purpose of obtaining JUSTICE, and the consideration of subjects…
The Northern-based American Bible Union meets in New York. Founder and president, Thomas Armitage, is a Baptist minister. In addition to providing Bibles in non-English languages, the Union is now busy supplying Bibles to freedmen, many of whom are finally learning to read, following the post-war fall of decades of Southern laws disallowing slaves to…
Today Union Lieutenant Colonel James A. Thompson, stationed in Gallatin, Tennessee and hoping to be mustered out of service soon, writes to a friend, Sarah Sherburne. Thompson’s letter includes a mention of revival season among the Baptists of the area. “Gallatin Tennessee. October 23″ 1865. Friend Sarah Your kind letter dated Oct 6″ 1865.…