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Tag Archives: conscription

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 8, 1863

Today from the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia, pastor John L. Burrows delivers a rousing sermon criticizing the opening of a new theatre in the Confederate capital. The new theatre replaces the city’s Hewitt Theatre that had burned on New Year’s day, and was built and is owned by a woman,…

February 8, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Samuel Boykin

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 2, 1862

This week, against Southern jubilation over the victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index, offers a summation of the second annual session of the Confederate Congress, currently in the third week (the session will not conclude until October) in Richmond, the nation’s capital. Many important bills…

September 2, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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