The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention continues in LaGrange. The Baptists present, mostly elites, many of whom are large slaveowners, on this last day of the annual gathering pass a series of “Resolutions on the State of the Country.” Resolved, That the Convention heartily, solemnly, and unanimously re-asserts the sentiments, so far as…
For many if not most southerners, the Civil War is an emotional roller coaster. War-time diaries often capture the emotional nature of the war, as is the case with the diary of Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky. The Battle of Shiloh, fought in the neighboring state of Tennessee…
A Baptist pastor from Ohio today writes to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States: [To the President of the United States.] Honorable and Dear Sir: I address you though a stranger because I feel so deep an interest in our country. Having sons in the Third and Thirteenth Ohio Regiments I feel that I…