Today’s New York Times offers glimpses into post-war realities, including news about colored troops, Baptists and a possible attempt on the life of United States President Andrew Johnson. “We print this morning an important order by the Lieutenant-General, which will very speedily muster out of service nearly all the volunteer army. He has assigned the…
Some Baptist churches North and South during the war hosted political meetings, discourses or politicized sermons. In the North, calls for freedom for all were typically voiced, while such meetings in white Baptist churches of the South insisted upon the maintenance of freedom for whites only. One church that hosted political meetings in the North…
Today’s New York Times publishes an editorial suggesting that the time has come, for the sake of the nation, that the four denominations that split prior to the war, reunite. The four denominations in question are: Old-School Presbyertians New-School Presbyterians Methodists Baptists The article treats the organizations in aggregate, as well as offering some comments…