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Baptists and the American Civil War: February 26, 1863

Revivals in the Confederate army camps and doctrinal debate among Baptists of the North offer two glimpses into Baptist life today. Today’s edition of Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald reports that revival meetings within Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s army have been going on for “fifty-five consecutive days and nights without regard to weather or other…

February 26, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 5, 1862

This week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder reprints a summary of a rousing nationalistic sermon delivered during a recent “prayer meeting for the country” at the the First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia. Ebenezer W. Warren of patriotic sermon fame is the pastor of the Macon congregation. Sylvanus Landrum, prominent Georgia Baptist minister and pastor…

September 5, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: August 11, 1862

Confederate private J. E. W. Henderson, born in 1829 in Georgia and now a resident of Alabama, today experiences that which Baptists of the South are praying for their soldiers: salvation. After the war he serves as a Primitive Baptist minister and editor, preaching the Gospel of local-church centric missions and ministry (rather than denominationally-coordinated…

August 11, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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