War-time excitement does not prevent many white Baptists of the South from engaging in ongoing religious debates whose origins predate the war. One ongoing Baptist debate is over the issue of Landmarkism, a formal movement with origins in the early 1850s and expressing the belief that Baptist are the only true Christians, or said another…
James Burrell Jones’ second son is born tonight, the day before eighteen-year old Jones marches off to war, leaving his teenage wife to raise two children and tend their south Georgia farm. She “did all the farming, plowed, hoed and everything that has to be done on a farm. She also spun and weaved…
Perry Lee Hickox, born in 1840 in Wayne County, Georgia, is from a large Baptist family in south Georgia, one of twenty-one children, fifteen of whom survive infancy. Perry’s father, David, is from Connecticut. He moved South upon obtaining a land grant in south Georgia, and married Sarah Altman of Wayne County (this was David’s…