This month the Beaver Baptist Association of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania passes a resolution advocating “the confiscation of Rebel property” and “justice to all inhabitants of the land.” While enslaved Americans yet await freedom, white Baptists North and South live out their freedoms in a variety of ways. Today in Detroit, Michigan future Baptist clergyman, Isaac…
John A. Broadus, professor at the (temporarily shuttered) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina is now serving as a chaplain in Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Today Broadus makes note of spiritual developments in the army, providing a glimpse into the intricacies of the revival atmosphere that increasingly impacts the…
Today the Union captures Little Rock, Arkansas in the Battle of Bayou Fourche. Afterwards, state Confederate forces retreat to Arkadelphia and Rockport and establish a new state capitol at Washington, in Hempstead County. The fall of Little Rock further fragments the Confederate nation as the Southwest is increasingly isolated from the rest of the South.…