This month U.S. Army Gen. Oliver O. Howard calls for a gathering of Edisto Island’s freedmen. Howard is loathe to break the bad news to the assembled crowd, representative of some 40,000 former slaves who now till what they think are their own lands, given to them by Union General William T. Sherman earlier this…
Today the Georgia Baptist Association, meeting at the Bairds Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, concludes. As is often customary in Baptist associations, delegates issue a “report” on the state of the churches of the association that will be circulated among member congregations in the weeks and months to come. The report declares, in part: [Some…
The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Association continues today. Gathered in the Bairds Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, the white Southern Baptist delegates in several resolutions address post-war changes in the South as pertaining to religion. It is “the sense of this organization and its earnest wish,” one resolution reads, “that the Southern Organizations…