Menu

Skip to content
  • HOME
  • Start Here
  • About
    • About this Site
    • How to Use this Site
    • Reviews
  • Research
    • A Sampling of Primary Materials
    • Baptist Newspapers During the War
    • Bibliography
    • Archival Collections
    • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
    • Churches
  • Featured Essays
    • A War Long Coming
    • Yes, the Civil War Was About Slavery
    • … But White Baptists in the South Were Not United
    • Racism and Inequality in the North Prior to the Civil War
    • Religion and the Civil War
    • The Larger Perspective of the Civil War
    • The Legacy of the Civil War
    • Historical Reflections on the June 2015 Terrorism in Charleston
  • Baptist History & Heritage Society
  • Bruce’s CW Books
  • BruceGourley.Com
  • Links

Tag Archives: joseph brown

Georgia Flag Waving Over former U.S. installation in Augusta

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 24, 1861

Having seceded from the Union, Georgia’s secession convention continues as delegates draft new state documents and make plans to accept an invitation from the state of Alabama to attend a conference for all slaveholding states, slated to begin February 4th. The secession speeches, convention proceedings and ordinances of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and now…

January 24, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 3, 1861

Georgia governor Joseph Brown, a Baptist, takes immediate action in light of the state’s vote to hold a secession convention. Sending 134 volunteer Savannah militiamen, under the command of Colonel A. R. Lawton (later, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army), Brown seizes control of Fort Pulaski. The bloodless taking of the fort, located on…

January 3, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Post navigation

Newer posts →

Site Archives

Site Search

December 2025
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Feb    
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Expound by Konstantin Kovshenin

Copyright © Bruce Gourley 2010-2013 · All Rights Reserved · Baptists and the American Civil War