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Tag Archives: confederate missionaries

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 27, 1863

Samuel Boykin, editor of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index, has on more than one occasion criticized Georgia Baptist pastors for not volunteering as army evangelists and missionaries. His criticism has not gone unchallenged. In this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, an editorial defends the inaction of most Baptist pastors by associating the problem with…

October 27, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 9, 1863

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…

October 9, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 10, 1863

Readers of Southern Baptist newspapers are, by now, fed a steady diet of news regarding the religious condition of the Confederate army, and this week is no exception, as an article in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder testifies. The letters, which we have been publishing for weeks, will give our readers some notion of…

June 10, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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