Baptists and the American Civil War: March 26, 1861
This month James Stokes Dickerson, well-known Baptist editor, assumes his first pastorate at the Second Baptist Church of Wilmington, Delaware. Prior to this time, Dickerson served as an editor of New York Baptists’ “Recorder,” the American Baptist Publication Society, and Philadelphia’s “Christian Chronicle.” After his tenure in Delaware, Dickerson would also pastor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…