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Tag Archives: february 1864

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 22, 1864

Baptists of the South are hovering between two differing visions yielding a common, widely hoped-for result: one in which the current revivals in the Confederate Army appease their nation’s God who in turn brings an end to recent battlefield losses, drives the northern barbarians from Southern soil, and blesses the Confederacy with victory, peace and…

February 22, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: February 21, 1864

News of the the Lincoln administration granting permission to the American Baptist Home Mission Society to fill pulpits in abandoned Baptist churches of the South does not sit well with Southern Baptist divines. A caustic and defiant editorial originally published in the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald , reacting to an earlier editorial in the New…

February 21, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 19, 1864

In a winter of discontent, deserters and dissenters are fair game in the Confederacy. From Texas to the Eastern seaboard, white southerners with wavering loyalties are caught in a tug of war playing out between lowered Confederate rifle barrels and the extended hand of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. In the crossfire hangs liberty, property and…

February 19, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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