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Baptists and the American Civil War: February 18, 1864

Three years after the beginning of the war, both North and South are desperately recruiting soldiers to fill their decimated army ranks. Today Tennesseans Lemuel and Barak Chambers, father and son, enlist in the Union Army. They have long-standing Baptist roots. The father of Barak and grandfather of Lemuel, Barak Chambers (1792-1847), was a Baptist…

February 18, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 31, 1862

James M. Pendleton is a well-known Baptist preacher and newspaper editor (assistant editor of the Tennessee Baptist) in Tennessee and among many other rural Baptists in portions of the South. He is also  the author of an influential book, An Old Landmark Re-Set (Old Landmarks Revisited), published in 1856 and the figurehead volume advocating Landmarkism…

August 31, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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