The First Baptist Church of Northampton, Massachusetts burns today. While the building is not entirely destroyed, for the next eighteen months worship services are held in the Northampton Town Hall while the church meeting house undergoes repairs. Meanwhile, the Educational Association of Virginia is formed today in the basement of the First Baptist Church of…
Despite the recent draft riots in New York City, the military drafts are now well underway throughout much of the North. Although uppermost in the minds of Northern citizens and often worrisome, conscription proceeds at an orderly pace in most all instances. Even Baptist pastors are not exempt, as today’s New York Times reports. From…
Fort Wagner stands on Morris Island, guarding the approach to Charleston. Early this morning fresh federal troops land on the island, sizing up the fort. The only approach to the beach fort is over a narrow strip of sand bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and swamp marshland on the other. Prospects are…