Menu

Skip to content
  • HOME
  • Start Here
  • About
    • About this Site
    • How to Use this Site
    • Reviews
  • Research
    • A Sampling of Primary Materials
    • Baptist Newspapers During the War
    • Bibliography
    • Archival Collections
    • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
    • Churches
  • Featured Essays
    • A War Long Coming
    • Yes, the Civil War Was About Slavery
    • … But White Baptists in the South Were Not United
    • Racism and Inequality in the North Prior to the Civil War
    • Religion and the Civil War
    • The Larger Perspective of the Civil War
    • The Legacy of the Civil War
    • Historical Reflections on the June 2015 Terrorism in Charleston
  • Baptist History & Heritage Society
  • Bruce’s CW Books
  • BruceGourley.Com
  • Links

Tag Archives: delaware avenue baptist church

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 6, 1865

Following a number of letters written on his behalf to U.S. president Andrew Johnson, including one by Richard Fuller, Baltimore pastor and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist minster and editor J. R. Graves is granted amnesty. The former resident of Nashville, Tennessee returns to the state and settles in Memphis, where for…

July 6, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 22, 1865

Today Edward Ellis (1843-1892), Baptist minister, musters out of the United States Army. A native of Wales, Ellis with his family emigrated to America in 1850 and settled in Waukesha County, Wisconsin in 1855. “In the summer of 1857 he gave his heart to Christ and being thoroughly imbued with the principles of the Baptist…

June 22, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Site Archives

Site Search

May 2025
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Feb    
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Expound by Konstantin Kovshenin

Copyright © Bruce Gourley 2010-2013 · All Rights Reserved · Baptists and the American Civil War