Baptist layman Thomas C. Cheney is a soldier in the First New Hampshire Voluntary Light Battery and a member of the First Free Baptist Church of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1861 a 28-year old Cheney enlisted as a private in the Battery. He fights in most of the major battles during the war years, including…
The legacy of Benjamin Randall, founder of Free Will Baptists, is alive and well in Oneonta, New York. In 1856, the town’s Second Free Will Baptist Church was established when some members of the first Free Will congregation “believing that a more central location would foster the growth of church membership … thought it wise…
Baptists of the South are hovering between two differing visions yielding a common, widely hoped-for result: one in which the current revivals in the Confederate Army appease their nation’s God who in turn brings an end to recent battlefield losses, drives the northern barbarians from Southern soil, and blesses the Confederacy with victory, peace and…