In Spartanburg, South Carolina prominent state South Carolina Southern Baptists assemble for the annual meeting of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina. The percentage of slaveholders among attendees is much greater than among South Carolina Baptists at large. Prominent Baptists include Basil Manly, James P. Boyce, and John A. Broaddus, all…
Seven people join the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church of Choctaw County, Alabama. All are from one family, and their entry into church membership is a microcosm of the reasons underlying the warfare between South and North. The family is the Bloxom family. Three white members join Mount Pisgah today: Albert Bloxom, wife Amanda, and sister…
Today, Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky, reflects upon the recent Confederate victory at the first battle of Manassas / Bull Run, fought three days prior: A great battle has been fought in old Virginia between the North, East & West against the South, who is battling alone…