In the Confederate capitol in Richmond, today’s session of the House of Delegates of the Virginia Legislature is opened by Rev. Jeremiah B. Jeter, pastor of the city’s Grace Street Baptist Church, and one of the most prominent Southern Baptists of the Confederacy. Both Senate and House discuss the prospects of arming slaves for military…
Today the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of Colored People is formed in Maryland. Supported heavily by Baptists, the organization’s focus is statewide. It is one of many such similar associations formed in the North, as well as in Union-controlled areas of the South, during the second half of the Civil War.…
Today the most prominent Baptist in Georgia is effectively in exile as Milledgeville, the state capital, is firmly under the control of the Union Army. Governor Joseph Brown, a member of the First Baptist Church of Milledgeville, fled upon the arrival of the Federals on November 23. Traveling southward, he now finds refuge in his…