Today at the Grove Hill Baptist Church in Alabama, in a formal ceremony the flag of the 24th Alabama Infantry (Co. E. Dickinson Guards) is presented to the company. Confederate flag presentation ceremonies held in churches, Baptist and otherwise, are not unusual, as many white southern Christians are patriotic Confederates, while belief in the Confederacy…
Formed only one year earlier, the Mississippi Baptist Association, meeting at Mars Hill, offers “fervent prayers … to God on behalf of our beloved country,” and adopts a resolution regarding the war: “Resolved, That Saturday before the first Lord’s day in November be recommended to the churches composing this Association as a day to be…
The state of Tennessee is in turmoil, her citizens’ loyalties divided. Tennessee soldiers fight in both southern and northern armies, while the South struggles to retain control of the state. The divided loyalties of soldiers in both Tennessee and neighboring Kentucky lead to much internal conflict that pits southern soldiers against one another, with civilians…