Today in Prince William County, Virginia, the Third Corps of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia attack the Second Corps of Union Gen. George E. Meade‘s Army of the Potomac. The Battle of Bristoe Station begins with a surprise attack upon the unsuspecting federals: the initial shells fall as the federals are…
Alabama’s Muscle Shoals Baptist Association meets this month at the Town Creek Church. A summarization of the meeting some 25 years after the war provides a glimpse of how post-war Baptist writers of the South remember the war. Elder J. Gunn preached the introductory sermon. Sixteen churches were represented. Elder J. Gunn was moderator and…
Baptists of the Roaring River District Baptist Association gather this day at Reddie’s River Church in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Like most other Primitive Baptist associational gatherings during the war, they decline to focus on the war. Primitive Baptists of the South, more than Southern Baptists, tend to maintain their heritage of strict separation of…