Baptists formally arrived in Lake County, Indiana in the 1830s. A Baptist Sunday School was established at Cedar Lake in 1839. In the years following Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians have worked together in the task of conducting Sunday School. Today a “few superintendents, teachers and friends of Sunday-schools in Lake County” meet at Crown Point…
In what proves to be the final hour of the Confederacy, the government authorizes the enlistment and arming of slaves to fight in the Confederate Army. With the signature of President Jefferson Davis, the bill is official. Although by no means putting an end to the debate in the South over slaves serving in the…
On what is a rather quiet winter’s day in terms of military activity, far to the west of the theaters of war the Legislative Assembly of Montana Territory incorporates Virginia City, creating the first municipal government in the territory that had itself only recently been incorporated the preceding May 26. The first clergyman to preach…