Baptists and the American Civil War: July 18, 1862

This month the Siloam Baptist Church of Greene County, Georgia meets and does something unusual for Baptist churches of the South during the war: they formally discuss the death of a soldier member. Baptists, long accustomed to not allowing the outside world to infiltrate worship services and business meetings, typically do not officially discuss in…

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 15, 1861

Henry Holcombe Tucker, Mercer University professor and pastor at Bethesda Baptist Church in Greene County, approaches his congregation with a “if it comes to this” notification as the church meets in monthly conference. From the church’s minutes, as recorded by Clerk William A. Overton, a former Mercer student: The Pastor called the Conference, to which…

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31