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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.

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 22, 1862

Not all young Southern Baptist men march off to war. Twenty-six year old John Lemuel Carroll of North Carolina, baptized as a Baptist at the age of nine, is a licensed and ordained minister and a student at the University of North Carolina. Rather than join the army, as have most of his fellow students,…

June 22, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 1, 1862

Washington, D.C.’s E Street Baptist Church, the city’s leading Baptist congregation, is in turmoil. In the face of an impending split, the pastor recently resigned, and mere days earlier a significant numbers of members met to begin the formation of a new congregation (soon to be known as Calvary Baptist Church). The cause of the…

June 1, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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