Baptists and the American Civil War: September 16, 1861
Baptist layman and future editor of the Alabama Baptist (the state newspaper of Alabama’s Southern Baptists) from 1884 to 1902, John Gideon Harris, organizer of Company I of the Alabama 20th Infantry Regiment in Greene County, assembles with the full regiment. The regiment is comprised of recruits from Bibb, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Perry, Russell,…