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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 16, 1865

This month the Ku Klux Klan begins taking shape in the Pulaski, Tennessee law office of Thomas M. Jones. The six men who establish the KKK maintain long-held beliefs, as do most white Southerners, in white supremacy and black servitude. Union efforts to bring equality to freedmen further fuel their anger. From this mix of…

December 17, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 09, 1865

This month the Holston Baptist Association of Tennessee passes a resolution asking that pro-Confederate Baptist churches apologize for their sin of supporting the Confederacy: “The war was wrong, … and it has caused the troubles which are existing in the Baptist churches. Therefore, we would recommend that all members who voted for separation, or voluntarily…

December 9, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 3, 1865

Today a new Baptist congregation is founded in the South. Unlike most in the immediate post-war years of the South, it is a white congregation. In the southern section of Memphis, Tennessee on the corner of Adams and Second Streets, the Central Baptist Church is established. For some years, no other white Baptist church had…

December 3, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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