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Wounded Confederate Soldiers

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 14, 1864

Today is marked by minor skirmishes and battles in the relentless push by Union armies to concurrently reach the Confederate capital of Richmond and the strategic city of Atlanta, Georgia. Meanwhile, many Baptist congregations of the South have thus far failed to discuss the war in their record books, a reflection, to no small degree,…

June 14, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Abraham Lincoln

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 9, 1864

Today the Confederates emerge victorious in a minor but significant battle that is part of the Overland Campaign. In the Battle of Petersburg, Rebel forces repel an attempt by a contingent of the Union Army under General Benjamin Butler to enter Petersburg from the South. The Union loss is due in part to timidity on…

June 9, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 16, 1864

Religion, long woven into the fabric of the South prior to the war, was used an ideological weapon against the abolitionist North decades before the war began. More to the point, white religion is that which has served to uphold the moral and biblical righteousness of white supremacy and African slavery while creating a Christian…

April 16, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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