Perry Lee Hickox, born in 1840 in Wayne County, Georgia, is from a large Baptist family in south Georgia, one of twenty-one children, fifteen of whom survive infancy. Perry’s father, David, is from Connecticut. He moved South upon obtaining a land grant in south Georgia, and married Sarah Altman of Wayne County (this was David’s…
Today, Sunday, is a national Confederate Day of Thanksgiving, as proclaimed by the Confederate Congress on July 22, the day after the great victory at Bull Run / Manassas. The Congress has asked churches throughout the land to devote the day to thanking God and asking for God’s continued blessing upon his chosen nation: Resolved,…
In the state where southern treason against the United States began, South Carolina’s Southern Baptists convene in Spartanburg for the second day of their annual meeting. Most white southerners, however, consider the rebellion not as treason, but rather as the proper response of slaveholding states to the perceived hostility of non-slaveholding states and northern…