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Tag Archives: southern confederacy

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 31, 1864

A new battle in the Overland Campaign begins today: Cold Harbor. It will be unlike any fought thus far in the prolonged campaign. Today’s action takes the form of Union Major General Philip Sheridan, traveling ahead of Union soldiers from General Ulysses S. Grant‘s Army of the Potomac, seizing the important crossroads of Old Cold…

May 31, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 30, 1863

Southern Baptist newspapers frequently appeal to Confederate soldiers to place their faith in God and hope in the afterlife, appropriating images of mothers, wives and sisters. The following appeal in circulation this week is one example: Soldier of the Southern Confederacy! –To you I would fain speak a few words, and though others wield the…

July 30, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 8, 1863

In today’s edition of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index, editor Samuel Boykin extols, with soaring rhetoric, the virtues of his fellow Southern whites — and the loyalty of African slaves — in the midst of the war, encouraging all to resist the enemy and remain faithful to the ideals of the Confederacy. Our people, be…

June 8, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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