The recent victory at the Battle of Antietam provides United States President Abraham Lincoln the political capital to make public what he has long known he must do (and what the South has long warned that the “black president” will do): begin the formal emancipation of African slaves. Today Lincoln takes the first political step…
Many Baptist associations of the South meet this month, and the war is a frequent theme interspersed in associational meetings. This weekend, the Rehoboth Baptist Association of Georgia, meeting at the Forsyth Baptist Church in Monroe County, offers insight into the multi-dimensional impact of the great conflict. Missions, a major concern of Southern Baptists, is…
The war depletes many Southern Baptist churches of their menfolk. Church officers are not exempt from the male exodus, as exemplified by Jacob Eliot of Corsicana, Texas. Born in New York in 1803 and raised in Kentucky, at the age of 46 Eliot moved to Navarro County, Texas, with his wife, children, and grandchildren. Purchasing…