Baptists and the American Civil War: February 24, 1862

Nashville, Tennessee’s second largest city (behind Memphis) and militarily exposed in the wake of the United States’ capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, has been vacated of Confederate soldiers in anticipation of the arrival of Union forces. The retreating Confederates burned down the city’s bridges, and some residents joined in the evacuation. One of…

Baptists and the American Civil War: November 23, 1861

War-time excitement does not prevent many white Baptists of the South from engaging in ongoing religious debates whose origins predate the war. One ongoing Baptist debate is over the issue of Landmarkism, a formal movement with origins in the early 1850s and expressing the belief that Baptist are the only true Christians, or said another…

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