Today the Bethlehem Baptist Association of Alabama convenes at the Brooklyn Church in Conecuh County. A special prayer meeting is held “for our bleeding country, and for the success of our arms.” A resolution concerning the war is passed: “Resolved, That the Bethlehem Baptist Association now in session recommend, especially to the Churches within her…
A week after U.S. Lt. John Henry Russell enters Confederate-controlled Pensacola harbor and destroys the Confederate schooner Judah, a crowd gathers at Hamilton Baptist Church in Harris County, Georgia, for the annual meeting of the Columbus Association. Grumbling discussion, condemnation, and fear spiked by this first naval action of the Civil War is surely on…
Throughout the Confederacy, dozens if not hundreds of Baptist associations convene this month. At each meeting, the war is a popular topic of conversation, whether informally or formally. In Texas today, the Waco Baptist Association, meeting in Marlin, hears a report on home missions: “In view of the condition of the country, engaged as we…