Menu

Skip to content
  • HOME
  • Start Here
  • About
    • About this Site
    • How to Use this Site
    • Reviews
  • Research
    • A Sampling of Primary Materials
    • Baptist Newspapers During the War
    • Bibliography
    • Archival Collections
    • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
    • Churches
  • Featured Essays
    • A War Long Coming
    • Yes, the Civil War Was About Slavery
    • … But White Baptists in the South Were Not United
    • Racism and Inequality in the North Prior to the Civil War
    • Religion and the Civil War
    • The Larger Perspective of the Civil War
    • The Legacy of the Civil War
    • Historical Reflections on the June 2015 Terrorism in Charleston
  • Baptist History & Heritage Society
  • Bruce’s CW Books
  • BruceGourley.Com
  • Links

Tag Archives: missouri baptists

Kentucky Tennessee Map

Baptists and the American Civil War: November 30, 1865

Today’s edition of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald continues efforts to reconstruct the Old Confederacy as a righteous slave regime that was overwhelmed by the military might of an ungodly Northern people. Upset that Missouri is requiring all ministers to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States, Southern Baptists lament that the mandate…

November 30, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 21, 1865

From Booneville, Missouri, the state’s General Association of Baptists, having re-affirmed their ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, formally protests the Test Oath of the new Missouri state constitution, of which ministers are required to sign. The Test Oath is designed to assure the loyalty of Missouri’s citizens to the United States government, much to…

August 21, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Jesse, a Famous Baptist

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 24, 1864

In Virginia the forces of Union General Philip Sheridan maintain pursuit of Confederate General Jubal Early‘s forces, albeit at a slow enough pace to allow ample time to burn crops, barns, forage and whatever else they think would have been useful to the Confederacy. Meanwhile, forces under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest…

September 24, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Post navigation

← Older posts

Site Archives

Site Search

June 2025
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30  
« Feb    
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Expound by Konstantin Kovshenin

Copyright © Bruce Gourley 2010-2013 · All Rights Reserved · Baptists and the American Civil War