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Tag Archives: loudon county

Alvis Hicks, East Tennessee Unionist Who Flees TN to Fight for the Union

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 11, 1861

At first glance, today is a typical Sunday at the Union Baptist Church in Tennessee’s Stockton Valley in Loudon County. Inside the plain meeting house with perhaps one hundred or more persons present, preaching and singing fill the morning hours as the temperature rises this hot August day. The sounds wafting through the open windows…

August 11, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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