Some war stories are stranger than fiction. Such is the case with the story of 29-year old Robert Franklin Hamilton (1834-1923) from Hendersonville, North Carolina, who today, in Knoxville, Tennessee, enrolls in the 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Mounted Infantry, a Union regiment. Earlier in the war, in 1862 a newly-married Hamilton joined the army of…
Two thirty-nine year old Baptist associations in Georgia meet today and reflect upon the condition of the Confederate States of America in the South’s war for the preservation of African slavery. One body is a Primitive Baptist association, and the other is Southern Baptist. Both associations were founded at a time when many Baptists of…
Alabama’s Ten Islands Baptist Association meets at Post Oak Spring Baptist Church in Calhoun County, Alabama. Like many Baptist associations of the South during this fall season, the Ten Islands association passes (over the course of the three day gathering) resolutions and offers commentary on the war, the Confederacy, confederate soldiers and African slavery. Three…