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: richard fuller

Richard Fuller

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 14, 1861

As delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention depart Savannah, Georgia, to journey back to their homes, newspapers throughout the South report on the convention meeting. The Richmond Times Dispatch’s reporting of the Savannah gathering focuses on statements by SBC president Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore, Maryland: Let me but utter…

May 14, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Savannah First Baptist Church

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 10, 1861

Today the Southern Baptist Convention convenes in Savannah, Georgia at the city’s First Baptist Church (pictured). Attendance is down due to the war. Yet much of what takes place follows the same pattern of previous assemblages, since the founding of the SBC in 1845: committees are appointed, reports are read, and a convention president is…

May 10, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Post navigation

Newer posts →

Site Archives

Site Search

December 2025
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Feb    
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Expound by Konstantin Kovshenin

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