In and around the yard of a pacifist Baptist church, the bloodiest one day battle in American history unfolds today: the Battle of Antietam. Built in 1852 by German Baptist farmers, the Dunker Church on a hill near Sharpsburg, Maryland houses a peace-loving congregation of six to eight farm families. There is nothing peaceful about…
Perry Lee Hickox, born in 1840 in Wayne County, Georgia, is from a large Baptist family in south Georgia, one of twenty-one children, fifteen of whom survive infancy. Perry’s father, David, is from Connecticut. He moved South upon obtaining a land grant in south Georgia, and married Sarah Altman of Wayne County (this was David’s…
Daniel Fuller Hutchinson is from a Baptist family, and in the post-war years, an active member of First Baptist Church Reading, Massachusetts. Born at Greenfield, New Hampshire in 1839, he learned the trade of carriage making. Like many other tradesman, however, he puts aside his business and joins the Union Army, enlisting today at Boston.…