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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 8, 1865

During the antebellum and Civil War years most, but not all, Southern Baptist ministers harbored loyalties for the Confederacy. Of those who were Unionists, sympathies with the Union remained buried, or at least subdued. James Ryland Kendrick is one such example. Born in Poultney, Virginia in 1821, he graduated from Hamilton Seminary (New York) and…

November 8, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: April 4, 1864

The Civil War era bisects the early decades of expanding Baptist scholarship North and South. Higher educational opportunities for Baptists of the North were introduced with the founding of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1764, after which more Baptists institutions, both North and South, were birthed in the early nineteenth century. By the…

April 4, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Beaufort, South Carolina during the Civil War

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 1, 1863

Today’s annual meeting of the Erie Baptist Association of New York echoes many other Northern Baptist associations this fall in terms of expressing support for emancipation of slaves and the war against Southern slavery. One Erie Baptist resolution succintly summarizes the association’s beliefs in terms of war and slavery: Resolved, That we have special occasion…

September 1, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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