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Baptists and the American Civil War: January 22, 1863

Southern Baptist newspapers routinely publish (whether original reporting or in the form of selective republishing from other sources) reports of Yankee atrocities in Union-occupied areas of the South. This week, readers of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder learn of “Yankee Outrages in Eastern North Carolina” (the coastal region). This sensational account of desecrations, quite real…