In the state where southern treason against the United States began, South Carolina’s Southern Baptists convene in Spartanburg for the second day of their annual meeting. Most white southerners, however, consider the rebellion not as treason, but rather as the proper response of slaveholding states to the perceived hostility of non-slaveholding states and northern…
In Spartanburg, South Carolina prominent state South Carolina Southern Baptists assemble for the annual meeting of the State Convention of the Baptist Denomination in South Carolina. The percentage of slaveholders among attendees is much greater than among South Carolina Baptists at large. Prominent Baptists include Basil Manly, James P. Boyce, and John A. Broaddus, all…
Their spirits bolstered by victory at the skirmish known as the Battle of Blackburn’s Ford, Confederate forces, anticipating a clash with U.S. Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell’s 35,000 troops, begin consolidating in preparation. Some troops arrive in the Manassas area by train, the first time in history for troops to be transported by train. Meanwhile, in…