In Culpeper County, Virginia, site of 18th century Baptist struggles for religious liberty against the Anglican state church, a cavalry battle erupts today as U.S. Brig. Gen. William W. Averell leads 2100 mounted troops across the Rappahannock River to attack Confederate cavalry. Conf. Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee counter-attacks with 800 mounted men, not enough to…
With gathering momentum, African slavery is losing ground following the Emancipation Proclamation. Nowhere is this more evident than within Union-controlled areas along the South Carolina coast. In the state where the first shot of the war was fired, and where prior to the war some of the richest men in the nation lived–all large plantation…
While public opposition to the Confederacy from within Southern Baptist churches is rare, Northern Baptists are not nearly as unified regarding their views of the United States. Although seemingly most Baptists of the North are anti-slavery and support the Union cause, some Baptists openly support the peace movement in the North, an effort to put…