Baptists and the American Civil War: June 1, 1861
Rev. Isaac McCoy (1784-1846) was a Baptist minister, Indian missionary, surveyor, and author. “In 1810 McCoy was ordained a Baptist minister and seven years later was sent by the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions in America to the Miami Indians, who were living on the Wabash river, 16 miles above Terre Haute, Indiana. This was…