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Tag Archives: battle of fort wagner

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 11, 1863

Today Union troops, having landed the previous day on Morris Island in Charleston harbor, begin a campaign to capture the island’s Fort Wagner (also known as Battery Wagner), a well-guarded Confederate fortress built upon beach sands south of Charleston. Controlling the fort would put a little more pressure on the nearby South Carolina coastal city.…

July 11, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 10, 1863

Who caused the war? A brief piece in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder firmly pins the blame on Northern abolitionists. It has been common, in some parts of the Confederacy, for the members of one political party to charge their opponents with having caused this war. A new aspirant for the honor is…

July 10, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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