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Tag Archives: manassas

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 29, 1862

The momentum now seems to be on the Confederacy’s side, but Union armies remain in northern Virginia.Today, the two sides clash in a major battle on familiar ground that becomes known as the Second Battle of Bull Run (and the Second Battle of Manassas). As had been the case in the First Battle of Bull…

August 29, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: August 28, 1862

North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham this week evaluates the status of the war from a Southern Baptist perspective. He wrongly surmises that Union Gen. John Pope’s Army of Virginia, currently located near Manassas, will probably not be engaged by Confederate forces “for several weeks” (Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, leading a…

August 28, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: March 28, 1862

Recent battlefield reversals and Union advancements in Tennessee and along the Confederate coast are ample fodder for sober assessments of the Southern war effort. Enthusiasm for the war effort is dampened in the minds of some, but many others are more determined than ever to defeat the invaders. White Southern Baptist elites take it upon…

March 28, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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