Meeting at Mount Zion Baptist church, Copiah County, the Mississippi Baptist Association addresses the ongoing war: “Resolved, That this Association do most earnestly recommend the churches to meet on the first Lord’s day in every month at ten o’clock to offer up special prayer for the success of our cause and the spiritual welfare of…
Baptists of the Roaring River District Baptist Association gather this day at Reddie’s River Church in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Like most other Primitive Baptist associational gatherings during the war, they decline to focus on the war. Primitive Baptists of the South, more than Southern Baptists, tend to maintain their heritage of strict separation of…
Today Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky and a Confederate supporter, journals her anxieties about her nation and family. Have been busy about many things to day, but one subject is on my mind and in my heart almost forever when awake, let me be doing what I…