Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, identifies slavery as the main issue between North and South, equates black slavery with God’s purposes and the Christian faith, and calls upon white Southern Baptists to defend slavery and support the Confederacy. In so doing, Boykin voices Christian Nationalism, linking the Confederacy and the Church as…
While secession and the coming Civil War focus on the future of blacks in America, Native Americans are also impacted by the looming conflict. Today, all Union troops are ordered to leave Indian territories in Confederate control. The Community & Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks (link) web site sums up…
Today a career United States military officer accepts U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron’s offer of a commission as colonel of the First Cavalry. The officer’s name is Robert E. Lee. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln had submitted the commission to the Senate on March 21, and the offer was formalized four days later. Even as…