The white citizens of Virginia are busy trying to re-order state, economy and industry. Today, following an opening prayer by Richmond Baptist minister Rev. Jeremiah Jeter, the Virginia legislature in session reviews bills pertaining to the extension of debts, the repairing and resumption of railroads, the restoration of banks, and the re-stabilizing of various public…
Missourian Franklin (“Frank”) James (brother to Jesse James) is the son of a now-deceased Baptist minister (Robert James, who assisted in the formation of William Jewel College) and a Sunday School teacher in his Baptist church. Enrolling in the Confederate Army early in the war, Frank soon returned home. When Union soldiers raided the family…
In Evansville, Indiana’s Baptist Lecture Room on Fifth Street and Chestnut Street, twenty-five Baptists gather this day to create a new black Baptist church, one of many formed this month in the wake of the end of the war. Most prominent of those present is Andrew L. Robinson, an antislavery attorney and Baptist layman. The…