Baptists and the American Civil War: April 19, 1862
“Young Brother Singleton,” identified as a theology student at Mercer University, today gives “an interesting discourse” to the congregation at Bethesda Baptist Church in Greene County, Georgia. He is sponsored, one would surmise, by Pastor Henry Holcomb Tucker, who doubles as university professor of metaphysics and belles-lettres. Besides a letter granted to member Sarah Jones,…