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Ohio and Indiana Map 1861

Baptists and the American Civil War: November 22,1861

While recent state Baptist meetings South and North have been marked with excitement about the war, emotions in Baptist homes often evidence less exuberance and more concern. Many southern and northern families, already anxious regarding loved ones serving on distant battlefields, are beginning to realize the war will not end soon. Depression and mental illnesses,…

November 22, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 25, 1861

Six months into the war, some Northern Baptist clergy are enlisting in the Union army – not as chaplains, but rather as soldiers. Memories of an earlier generation of Baptists fighting in the Revolutionary War resonate among Civil War-era Baptists. Among today’s enlistees is Daniel Haskell Burdick, Illinois Baptist minister and farmer. Burdick’s service is…

October 25, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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