Baptists and the American Civil War: February 2, 1863

Baptist minister and soldier J. J. Hyman is serving as a chaplain in the 49th Georgia Regiment, a unit under the command of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The troops have been in winter quarters for several months now, awaiting the battles that are to come in the spring. For chaplains, the temporary settling of…

Baptists and the American Civil War: November 20, 1862

Few Baptist churches of the South discuss soldier deaths in church records. When Southern Baptists do formally recognize the death of one of their own serving in the Confederate Army, such notice is more likely to be in a Baptist associational meeting or published in a Baptist newspaper. Today, the Alabama Baptist newspaper highlights the…

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