The Civil War is a story of both events and individual persons. Among the soldiers of the United States Army is Thomas L. Magee, born in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio in 1836, and raised in Peoria County, Illinois. At the age of thirteen, Magee accepted Christ in a Baptist church. In his young adult years,…
Convened in Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania Baptist Convention today passes a unanimous resolution of support for the United States Constitution, liberty for all, and U. S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation. In so doing, Pennsylvania Baptists join most other Northern Baptist groups in formalizing their support of freedom for African slaves. Resolved, That this Convention, representing…
By this point in the Civil War, the Confederacy’s three evangelical denominations–Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists–are frequently echoing one another when it comes to stoutly defending African slavery and prognosticating ultimate Confederate victory as the will of God. Prominent ministers, writers and journalists of all three denominations also in unison revile the North and U.S. President…