This month one of the leading Baptists of the South forms a Confederate company in Athens, Georgia: The Mell Rifles, Co. D, Cobb’s Legion Infantry, was raised in Athens, GA, in July 1861, by Patrick Hues Mell, Baptist Minister and Vice Chancellor of the University of Georgia. After Mell resigned due to his wife’s death,…
In the southern city of Richmond, Virginia, an ordinance outlawing the sale of liquor on Sundays is enacted. Any establishment selling alcoholic beverages is now forced to close at 10 PM and not allowed to open on Sundays. In the decades prior to the war, led by women – particularly religious women, and especially in…
Isaac Ball Feagin (1833-1900, born in Jones County, Georgia) is a merchant in Midway, Alabama, following a stint as deputy sheriff of the county (Barbour). He is of the Baptist faith. Today the Midway Guards of the Fifteenth Alabama infantry – which Feagin helped organize at the beginning of the war and was elected its…