President Abraham Lincoln, a former Baptist who now embodies a more mystical view of God and, due to the unparalleled war the nation is now engaged in, is being transformed into the United States’ theologian-in-chief, issues his first proclamation for a national day of fasting: Whereas a joint Committee of both Houses of Congress has…
Union sentiment remains high in parts of Tennessee. By the thousands Union sympathizers flee to Kentucky to escape conscription into the Confederate Army, from whence many join the Union army. One such man is Lindsay Cooper, a Baptist who survives the war and becomes a successful preacher, missionary and evangelist in his home state: Lindsay…
John H. Corn, born in Indiana in 1831 and now living in Illinois, enlists in Company A, Fortieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He and wife Paulina attend the local Missionary Baptist Church, where Paulina is a member but John perhaps never joins. During six months of service, John serves the Union army in Missouri and Kentucky,…