Today the Southern Baptist Convention convenes in Savannah, Georgia at the city’s First Baptist Church (pictured). Attendance is down due to the war. Yet much of what takes place follows the same pattern of previous assemblages, since the founding of the SBC in 1845: committees are appointed, reports are read, and a convention president is…
Born on June 23, 1839 in Baltimore, Maryland, John Wheaton Lynch “helped recruit for the 106th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1861. The regiment was mustered in the on August 24, 1861, and John W. Lynch served as a first lieutenant. The 106th saw action at many notable battles, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.…
In Montgomery, Alabama, J. W. Garrard today enlists in the Independent Rifles, formed as Company “D” (Later “E”) of the 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Born September 10, 1839 in Newton, Georgia, Garrard had lived a portion of his teenage years in Montgomery. His return to Montgomery is over circumstances that the teenage Garrard could not…