White Baptist commitment to the Confederacy is similar to that of the South’s other Christian denominations: many if not most embrace (in some fashion or another) the Confederacy as God’s Kingdom on earth, while few publicly disagree with the belief that African slavery is God’s will for the black race. Calvinism, a long-held Christian belief…
The Chowan Baptist Association of North Carolina assembles today for the organization’s annual meeting. Among business items, the report on the North Carolina Baptist State Convention is front and center, revealing insight into how Southern Baptists have reoriented their mission efforts in light of the Civil War. This Institution is designed to give strength and…
While the Confederate capital of Richmond is threatened by Union advances, the war in the Western theater is also going badly for the South. U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant, driving further southward, is now in Mississippi. The Confederates scramble to halt the Union advance, and today battle erupts in Farmington. Settled around the turn of…