Joel Addison Turner, Editor, The Countryman

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 27, 1862

Baptists compete with Methodists in claims for the largest religious denomination in the Confederacy. Sometimes the competition is not exactly cordial, as is evidenced in today’s Georgia-based The Countryman newspaper. The Countryman is privately published by a wealthy Methodist slave owner, Joseph Addison Turner. The Methodist layman is not complimentary of new children’s periodicals published…

Uncle Remus in Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881

Baptists and the American Civil War: October 13, 1862

Joseph Addison Turner (1826-1868), long-time writer and now editor of The Countryman, a newspaper published from Turner’s Putnam County, Georgia plantation–Turnwold–today affirms the Baptist & Banner newspaper’s recent addition of a literary department to the publication. In this same edition of his paper, Turner publishes an unusual story about the late Baptist giant John Leland,…