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Tag Archives: southern watchman

Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: March 1, 1865

In Virginia, the faculty of the University of Virginia convene and appoint one of their own to meet Union General Philip Sheridan, whose nearby forces are bearing down on the city of Charlottesville. Their hope is that the Federals will have mercy and spare the university. Yet not all are ready to give up the…

March 1, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Abraham Lincoln

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 19, 1861

Even as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln seeks to understand God’s purpose in the war, his present faith journey hearkening back to his Baptist roots, white Baptists of the South join white southerners at large in mocking Lincoln in ways vivid and cruel. The Athens Georgia Southern Watchman newspaper, read by many Baptists of the city…

December 19, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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