Baptists and the American Civil War: July 20, 1863
Southerner Jacob Eliot (1803-1870) of Corsicana, Texas is a successful attorney, a slaveholder, and the church clerk of the Corsicana Baptist Church. A senior citizen during the war, he assists the war effort on the home front. He also keeps a journal during the war, in which the entires tend to be brief and to…
