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Tag Archives: temperance

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 23, 1863

Sarah Christie Stevens, 18 years of age, is a student at Wisconsin Female College in Fox Lake. She has a drive “to do great good in the world,” and her father and soldier brothers are financing (the latter from their United States Army pay) her education in the belief that she will fulfill her wishes.…

January 23, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Civil War era whiskey label

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 21, 1863

As the war rages ever on, Southern Baptists continue hammering upon several sin themes to explain the South’s inability–yet!–to defeat the evil United States. Among the sins of the Confederacy that prevent God thus far from handing victory to His chosen nation are: extortion (the most common theme), Sabbath breaking, vice in the army camps,…

January 21, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 2, 1862

Green Clay Smith (1826-1895), born in Richmond, Kentucky and a lawyer by profession, is an officer in the United States Army. In May, Smith helped rout Confederate forces commanded by John Hunt Morgan at Lebanon, Tennessee. Formerly a colonel, today he is appointed as brigadier general of the Fourth Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry.…

July 2, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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