In Evansville, Indiana’s Baptist Lecture Room on Fifth Street and Chestnut Street, twenty-five Baptists gather this day to create a new black Baptist church, one of many formed this month in the wake of the end of the war. Most prominent of those present is Andrew L. Robinson, an antislavery attorney and Baptist layman. The…
Fifteen miles north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Confederate forces from Texas strike a Union supply area at Milliken’s Bend in an attempt to loosen U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant‘s siege of Vicksburg. The supply depots and hospitals at Milliken’s Bend are guarded by black soldiers, many of whom were until recently enslaved men. Armed with inferior…
The Alabama Baptist State Convention convenes today in Marion, the first assembly of this body during the war years. Southern Baptist divine and Chaplain to the Confederacy Basil Manly, Sr. opens the meeting in prayer. As in other assemblages of Southern Baptist associations and state conventions this fall, war is uppermost in the minds of…