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Baptists and the American Civil War: October 22, 1865

Today long-time Kentucky Baptist layman and former state politician Leonard Stephens writes to his brother William. Lamenting, in part, the difficulties he is having with his former slaves, Stephens offers a snapshot of white-black relations in the post-war months: “Since you left I have been considerably troubled over the threatening of my negroes to leave…

October 22, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 27, 1865

The worst disaster in American Maritime history occurs today in the Mississippi River, exceeding even that of the Titanic many years later. During the war the steamship Sultana plied the Mississippi between St. Louis and New Orleans, often carrying military personnel. Now, with the war effectively over (former Confederate president Jefferson Davis yet in hiding…

April 27, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Mr and Mrs Melvina King

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 17, 1861

Today Uriah King, a Baptist, Illinoisan, and the son of southern-born parents and grandparents, enlists in Company E, Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry. Few soldiers experience as much time inside Confederate prison camps as does King: Uriah King obtained a common school education and was reared to farm life. He has seen the county develop from a…

June 17, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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