New York Senator Ira Harris, an active Baptist and close friend of U.S. President (and former Baptist) Abraham Lincoln, today sends a note to Lincoln requesting that the president grant an audience, this day, with Southern Baptist Convention leader Richard Fuller. Harris’ note is as follows: This note will introduce you to the Rev. Dr.…
New York Senator Ira Harris (1802-1875), close political friend of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln, is one the nation’s most prominent Baptists. His name also graces New York’s 2nd Regiment Calvary, known as the “Harris Light Calvary.” Today William O. Stoddard, White House assistant and columnist for the New York Examiner, speaks of Harris in…
Andrew Levering, graduate of Andover Newton Theological Seminary in Newton, Massachusetts, former Baptist pastor in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and now living in St. Paul, Minnesota, musters in the St. Paul Pioneer Guard (later a part of Company A of the First Minnesota Infantry) as a private. He is 33 years old. He got into trouble once…