Baptist organizations North and South convene in the opening days of the month. Virginia’s General Baptist Association – the state organization of Virginia Baptists – meeting in Petersburg offers pointed statements regarding the war, expressing a willingness to give all Baptist monies to the Confederacy in order to secure southern victory: The long-cherished hatred of…
Patriots in Attleboro, Massachusetts gather at the First Baptist Church (founded in 1817) to prepare themselves spiritually before marching off to war. The volunteer soldiers have been training for weeks on the Baptist Common, in front of the Baptist church between Park and North Washington streets. Today is Sunday. The men, Company I of the…
Rev. Isaac McCoy (1784-1846) was a Baptist minister, Indian missionary, surveyor, and author. “In 1810 McCoy was ordained a Baptist minister and seven years later was sent by the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions in America to the Miami Indians, who were living on the Wabash river, 16 miles above Terre Haute, Indiana. This was…