Unlike Southern Baptists, Primitive Baptist churches and associations of the South tend toward silence regarding the war. The Towaliga Primitive Baptist Association of Georgia, however, is an exception. Meeting today, Towaliga Baptists address the national war as well as an escalating inter-denominational conflict with a Southern Baptist association. Concerning the Confederacy, these Primitive Baptists marry…
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…
Confederate private J. E. W. Henderson, born in 1829 in Georgia and now a resident of Alabama, today experiences that which Baptists of the South are praying for their soldiers: salvation. After the war he serves as a Primitive Baptist minister and editor, preaching the Gospel of local-church centric missions and ministry (rather than denominationally-coordinated…