Baptists and the American Civil War: February 18, 1864
Three years after the beginning of the war, both North and South are desperately recruiting soldiers to fill their decimated army ranks. Today Tennesseans Lemuel and Barak Chambers, father and son, enlist in the Union Army. They have long-standing Baptist roots. The father of Barak and grandfather of Lemuel, Barak Chambers (1792-1847), was a Baptist…