Menu

Skip to content
  • HOME
  • Start Here
  • About
    • About this Site
    • How to Use this Site
    • Reviews
  • Research
    • A Sampling of Primary Materials
    • Baptist Newspapers During the War
    • Bibliography
    • Archival Collections
    • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
    • Churches
  • Featured Essays
    • A War Long Coming
    • Yes, the Civil War Was About Slavery
    • … But White Baptists in the South Were Not United
    • Racism and Inequality in the North Prior to the Civil War
    • Religion and the Civil War
    • The Larger Perspective of the Civil War
    • The Legacy of the Civil War
    • Historical Reflections on the June 2015 Terrorism in Charleston
  • Baptist History & Heritage Society
  • Bruce’s CW Books
  • BruceGourley.Com
  • Links

Tag Archives: primitive baptists

Jefferson Davis

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 2, 1865

On display in Chicago this day, Lincoln‘s body is viewed by some 125,000 mourners. In this the third week following Lincoln’s assassination and the fourth following the Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia, late in the afternoon in Abbeville, South Carolina former Confederate president Jefferson Davis presides over his…

May 2, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: August 7, 1864

In the Atlanta Campaign’s Battle of Utoy Creek, begun on August 4, a Union offensive attempts to seize the railroad between East Point and Atlanta. The rail lines represent the Confederate’s supply route. Infighting among Union officers, however, provides Rebel defenders time to better entrench in anticipation of the Union attack. Unable to overpower the…

August 7, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 15, 1864

In the Kennesaw Mountain area near Atlanta, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman continues pressing the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee toward Marietta. A portion of today’s fighting takes place at the Gilgal Baptist Church, a Hardshell Primitive Baptist log meeting house. As Federal forces near Confederate General Patrick Cleburne‘s troops who are stationed along a strategic…

June 15, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Post navigation

← Older posts

Site Archives

Site Search

June 2025
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30  
« Feb    
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Expound by Konstantin Kovshenin

Copyright © Bruce Gourley 2010-2013 · All Rights Reserved · Baptists and the American Civil War