Today there is great excitement among members of the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, a congregation straddling the Wake and Chatham county lines: many, perhaps most, of the church’s young men in this country church enroll in the Cedar Fork Rifles (also known as the North Carolina Grays). By the end of the day, the roster…
The war is the talk of the town in Greenville, South Carolina as the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates its second class. Nearly one hundred years later, a historian would thus comment on this day: “When the second commencement of Southern seminary was held on May 27, 1861, great excitement prevailed in the seminary family.…
Confederate General Robert E. Lee seeks to bolster his army both in terms of manpower and firearms. Today he writes Georgia governor Joseph E. Brown (image), noting that many Georgia volunteer companies are arriving in Virginia without weapons. Lee requests weapons from Brown, having already made similar requests from politicians of other states. A Baptist…