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Tag Archives: february 1864

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 4, 1864

This month Osgood Church Wheeler is appointed secretary and manager of the United States Sanitary Commission for the Pacific Coast. He joins many other Northern Baptist ministers serving in U.S. agencies that assist freedmen and soldiers. A native of Wolcott (Butler), Wayne County, New York, Wheeler was born in 1816 and grew up in modest…

March 4, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 3, 1864

White Southern Baptist anger at U. S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent proclamation allowing Northern Baptist ministers to occupy empty pulpits in the South continues to grow, knowing no bounds. A Baptist editorialist this week, letting his imagination run loose, plays the emotionally-laden “negro” card, accusing the Yankees of planning on putting negro preachers in Southern…

March 3, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Civil War Hospital

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 28, 1864

The war has forced both North and South into a prolonged, anguished and uneasy conversation about death. Baptists (as well as other persons of faith) discuss death at a level perhaps never before witnessed, crafting a narrative of a “good death”–a passing which is wrapped in the honor of sacrifice for family and nation and…

February 28, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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