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Tag Archives: southerners

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 8, 1863

The bi-annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention assembles today in the Green Street Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia (a location chosen after the original plan to meet in Columbia, Mississippi was jeopardized by the presence of the United States Army in the state). As in 1845 (the year of the formation of the SBC),…

May 8, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 4, 1862

An editorial in this week’s Christian Index defends the rightness of the South and reinforces Amos C. Dayton’s Georgia speaking tour in defense of the godliness of African slavery. We are delighted when we contemplate the state of public sentiment in the South. We perceived during all our late reverses no wavering, no doubting, no…

June 4, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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