Baptists and the American Civil War: September 19, 1863
South of Union-controlled Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, seeking to regain ground from the federals, engages Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans’ Union forces. Thus begins the Battle of Chickamauga. Although Union lines successfully hold today in the face of a heavy assault, the morrow brings reinforcements from the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of…