At first glance, today is a typical Sunday at the Union Baptist Church in Tennessee’s Stockton Valley in Loudon County. Inside the plain meeting house with perhaps one hundred or more persons present, preaching and singing fill the morning hours as the temperature rises this hot August day. The sounds wafting through the open windows…
Today Joseph Moses Perryman, future chief of the Creek Nation and future Baptist, enlists in the Confederate Army in Company H First Creek Regiment of Mounted Volunteers. Joining many other Creek Indians who serve in the Confederate Army, Joseph remains in uniform for the duration of the war. Born in 1833 to the grandson of…
In the pages of the Tennessee Baptist, Baptist pastor A. C. Dayton offers a parable of a “patriotic, self-sacrificing Tennessee plantation mistress” (who were actually relatively few in Baptist congregations) and applies the story to churched women: We overheard a conversation some few weeks since, which threw light upon the character of our fair countrywomen.…