Today Edward Ellis (1843-1892), Baptist minister, musters out of the United States Army. A native of Wales, Ellis with his family emigrated to America in 1850 and settled in Waukesha County, Wisconsin in 1855. “In the summer of 1857 he gave his heart to Christ and being thoroughly imbued with the principles of the Baptist…
Today the First Baptist Church of Boston, Massachusetts celebrates its 200th anniversary history. Few Baptist churches yet existed in America when the Boston congregation was established in 1665. The main speaker is pastor Rollin Heber Neale. To the Boston’s church early records Neale turns, quoting from the very first church record, upon the founding of…
While men typically occupy the front lines of Civil War narratives, war-time hospitals created space for women to play significant roles. Millions of soldiers were injured during the war, with hundreds of thousands requiring hospitalization to various degrees. The sudden necessity of large volumes of nurses to work in the hundreds of temporary war-era hospitals…