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Tag Archives: marietta

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 15, 1864

In the Kennesaw Mountain area near Atlanta, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman continues pressing the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee toward Marietta. A portion of today’s fighting takes place at the Gilgal Baptist Church, a Hardshell Primitive Baptist log meeting house. As Federal forces near Confederate General Patrick Cleburne‘s troops who are stationed along a strategic…

June 15, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Civil War era map of Marietta, Georgia

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 31, 1862

Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch commends four Georgia churches – including one Baptist congregation – for their public displays of patriotism: The correspondence which follows explains itself. We give it a place in our columns as showing the determined spirit with which the [various] religious denominations are resolved in the prosecution of the present war. It…

March 31, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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