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Baptists and the American Civil War: March 31, 1864

Confederate leaders’ mounting fears of insurrection find evidence in the activities of Newton (“Newt”) Knight (1837-1922), Primitive Baptist and Unionist in Mississippi. Knight is leader of the Knight Company, a group of Confederate Army deserters and Confederate dis-loyalists who banded together in late 1863 to form the “Free State of Jones” in the Mississippi counties…

March 31, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 26, 1864

The Imitation Free Will Baptist Church was founded in Pitts County, North Carolina in 1831. By 1845 the church had twenty-four members and was holding worship services the first Sunday of each month (the monthly meetings being typical for rural Baptist churches in the South). As is the case with many churches throughout the South,…

March 26, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 4, 1864

In the midst of a harsh cold spell and a dwindling food supply for the Confederate Army, today Confederate President Jefferson Davis assents to Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s request for more supplies by ordering “impressment from stock [cattle] on hand for year’s consumption by private parties and corporations of so much as is required for…

January 4, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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