According to the Minutes of the 10th session of Georgia’s Oostanaula Baptist Association, not much is said about the war as the messengers gather this weekend at Friendship Church in Floyd County. Probably that’s not particularly true. Lack of reported discussion is rather misleading even if this group of churches does hail from the northwestern…
A faithful member of Dry Creek Baptist Church in Kenton County, northern Kentucky, as well as a founding member (1855) of Florence Baptist Church (and remaining a member until his death in 1873), Leonard Stephens (illustration) is a longtime Baptist. Born in Virginia in 1791, Leonard’s parents migrated to the northern Kentucky frontier, where the…
Some Southern Baptist soldiers succumb to illnesses early in the war, leaving the battlefield behind and returning to the home front. Such is the case of Rufus Wiley Phillips, a graduate of Georgia Baptists’ Mercer University. Weeks prior, Phillips, a Junior 2nd Lieutenant in a Lowndes County (GA) unit, was discharged from Confederate service in…