Today is Sunday, but church services are not the only matter occupying the minds of Baptists in Richmond, Virginia. Jefferson Davis and his family — wife, Varina, and children Margaret, Jefferson Jr. and Joseph — arrive in Richmond and are greeted by enthusiastic Virginians. Davis’s arrival is in conjunction with the moving of the Confederate…
Today there is great excitement among members of the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, a congregation straddling the Wake and Chatham county lines: many, perhaps most, of the church’s young men in this country church enroll in the Cedar Fork Rifles (also known as the North Carolina Grays). By the end of the day, the roster…
The war is the talk of the town in Greenville, South Carolina as the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates its second class. Nearly one hundred years later, a historian would thus comment on this day: “When the second commencement of Southern seminary was held on May 27, 1861, great excitement prevailed in the seminary family.…