Baptists and the American Civil War: June 12, 1863
Adoniram Judson Gordon, born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, on April 19, 1836, began life with the name a famous missionary — Adoniram Judson — and as the son of John Calvin Gordon, named after the Reformation theologian. Entering Baptists’ Brown University at the age of twenty, the abolitionist movement soon impressed him, although he…