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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 11, 1865

Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch reports on the city’s orphans, of which Baptists have a particular interest: The orphan asylums of Richmond, both Protestant and Catholic, are stated to be in state of almost perfect destitution, with a very limited supply of either fuel, food or clothes. This is doubtless true, and the sufferings of the…

December 11, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 16, 1865

This month Thomas Henderson Pritchard (1832-1896), a Confederate chaplain during the war and more recently the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Raleigh, North Carolina, is called as pastor of First Baptist Petersburg, Virginia A native of North Carolina and graduate of Baptists’ Wake Forest College, a young Pritchard switched from his law studies…

July 16, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 15, 1865

Many churches of the South that found themselves in the war’s path shut their doors for the duration of the great conflict. Some churches closed to never reopen after the war, but others are re-assembling and trying to return to normal. Among the later is Maloney’s Spring Baptist Church of Syrmna, Georgia. The Maloney’s Spring…

July 15, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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