In one of the most ardent Confederate states, there is a pocket of white resistance that grows stronger as the war progresses. Now, as anti-Confederacy sentiment across the South is gradually rising due to hard economic conditions, home front deprivation, resentment of Confederate heavy-handedness, and the length of the conflict, more and more male residents…
Meeting at Mount Zion Baptist church, Copiah County, the Mississippi Baptist Association addresses the ongoing war: “Resolved, That this Association do most earnestly recommend the churches to meet on the first Lord’s day in every month at ten o’clock to offer up special prayer for the success of our cause and the spiritual welfare of…
Baptists of the Roaring River District Baptist Association gather this day at Reddie’s River Church in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Like most other Primitive Baptist associational gatherings during the war, they decline to focus on the war. Primitive Baptists of the South, more than Southern Baptists, tend to maintain their heritage of strict separation of…