This year, in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, the founding of African Baptist churches proliferates. Unfortunately, the details of the formation of many of these congregations are nebulous. According to one early source, the Fourth Baptist Church, African (later Metropolitan Baptist Church) is formed this month in the District of Columbia “by a few holding…
Nashville, occupied by the United States Army, has become a significant Union supply and medical center in the South. All the Baptist churches in the city have been appropriated by federal troops, and many, including Second Baptist Church, are serving as hospitals. Known as the “Prison Hospital,” it houses both Union and Confederate prisoners, the…
Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, unsuccessful thus far in capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi, today gives up assaulting the city and orders his commanders to deploy siege tactics. Thus begins a month-long plus effort to force the city to surrender. Meanwhile, readers of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder learn of a good report from the Confederate army…