The Oak Ridge Baptist Church of Kenton County, Kentucky, meets today for the congregation’s monthly business session. A later-published history of the church summarizes the meeting: Bro. A. W. Mullins was chosen pastor for one year. Permission was granted to a sister, by a vote of the church, to appeal to the law when necessary…
Six months into the war, some Northern Baptist clergy are enlisting in the Union army – not as chaplains, but rather as soldiers. Memories of an earlier generation of Baptists fighting in the Revolutionary War resonate among Civil War-era Baptists. Among today’s enlistees is Daniel Haskell Burdick, Illinois Baptist minister and farmer. Burdick’s service is…
Upon graduating from Richmond College, John Walker Hundley joins the 26th Virginia Infantry as a second lieutenant, under the command of his uncle, Capt. Napoleon B. Street. A King and Queen County, Virginia native born in 1841, Hundley had a difficult childhood, his mother dying two years after his birth. College had opened a world…