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Baptists and the American Civil War: February 26, 1863

Revivals in the Confederate army camps and doctrinal debate among Baptists of the North offer two glimpses into Baptist life today. Today’s edition of Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald reports that revival meetings within Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s army have been going on for “fifty-five consecutive days and nights without regard to weather or other…

February 26, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 14, 1862

White Baptist commitment to the Confederacy is similar to that of the South’s other Christian denominations: many if not most embrace (in some fashion or another) the Confederacy as God’s Kingdom on earth, while few publicly disagree with the belief that African slavery is God’s will for the black race. Calvinism, a long-held Christian belief…

May 14, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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