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Baptists and the American Civil War: July 20, 1862

The small community of Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky, finds itself in the midst of a tug of war between Confederate and Union forces. Crab Orchard is under the control of the United States, but today, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan’s Cavalry, the First Kentucky, burns the Dix River Bridge near the town and sets…

July 20, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
John Hunt Morgan burns Pleasant Hill Baptist Church

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 31, 1862

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, near Campbellsville, Kentucky in Taylor County, today becomes a victim of the Civil War. The previous September, John Hunt Morgan, attempting to smuggle clothing to the Confederate Army, had been detained in the church building by the Union Taylor County Home Guards. Now a Confederate Cavalryman, today Morgan and a small…

January 31, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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