The annual convention of the American Baptist Missionary Union, hosted by the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio, is in its second day. Most of the day is spent listening to reports from foreign American Baptist missionary fields. While the war at home overshadows missionary efforts far away, the Union maintains a strong and vibrant…
In Nicholasville, Kentucky in 1846, black Baptists were granted permission to worship under the supervision of white Baptists. Those worship services have been conducted in the Union Church building since 1846. Today, however, a lot on York Street is deeded to Peter Johnson, a trustee of the black church, on behalf of the congregation. Eventually,…
Clashes intensify along the lower Mississippi River as U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant continues his relentless pursuit of capturing the strategic river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The key city of Jackson, Mississippi, having been occupied by Union troops for two days, is by now mostly destroyed as Grant’s army moves out of the city this…