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Tag Archives: augusta

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 25, 1865

The Confederacy continues winding down. This month the one remaining Confederate medical laboratory, located in Columbia, South Carolina, shutters its doors. There is not much left in the largely empty building when the keys are handed over to a Union officer in the city. While the remaining vestiges of Confederate government properties are turned over…

June 25, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 20, 1864

Sherman‘s army is rapidly marching through Georgia. Feinting toward Augusta on the left and Macon on the right this day, they effectively divide and confuse the remaining Confederate forces in the state. The Federals leave Macon untouched, leaving some 10,000 Confederate soldiers and local guardsmen bewildered yet relieved. Augustans are also concerned, but the Union…

November 20, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 11, 1864

Today is a Sunday, a day observed in the North as one of Thanksgiving and Prayer for the capture of Atlanta and Mobile Bay. Sermons from dozens if not hundreds of pulpits celebrate the significant recent Union victories that have provided much-needed assurances that God is on the side of freedom for all, and that…

September 11, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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