Today Jacob Eliot, a Baptist layman, lawyer and former slaveowner from Corsicana, Texas, is not entirely happy about the end of slavery. Nonetheless, today he uses his legal position to help four freedmen who apparently had not been his slaves. “I procured license for Joe McCullough and Charlie Thomas, two old freedmen – to get…
The Eighteenth Annual Session of the Baptist State Convention, assembled in the Anderson Baptist Church in Grimes County, wraps up today. The state organization is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, whose 1845 break away from Baptists of the North, in order to preserve black slavery, sealed the inevitability of the Civil War that took…
The paroling of Confederate soldiers continues. Among today’s paroled Confederates is Felix Winchester Magee (1845-1924) of Winchester, Texas. The ceremony takes place in Brazos County. At a mere 16 years of age Magee enlisted in Company D, 12th Regiment, Texas Infantry, on January 17, 1862. Discharged five months later once his age was discovered, he…