The Chowan Baptist Association of North Carolina meets and issues the following resolution in support of the Confederate States of America: Resolutions adopted by the Chowan Baptist Association, of the State of North Carolina, at its fifty-fifth annual session, on the 16th day of May, 1861. (1) Resolved, That this body concurs in the suggestion…
The Southern Baptist Convention reassembles at First Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, opening with the reading of Psalm 23. Delegates at the time did not anticipate how deep would be the “shadow of death” the South would traverse in a few years. Rather, the highlight of the day is the unanimous adoption of the Report…
In Montgomery, Alabama, J. W. Garrard today enlists in the Independent Rifles, formed as Company “D” (Later “E”) of the 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Born September 10, 1839 in Newton, Georgia, Garrard had lived a portion of his teenage years in Montgomery. His return to Montgomery is over circumstances that the teenage Garrard could not…