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Texas Civil War Map

Baptists and the American Civil War: December 19, 1865

Today in Texas — the lone Confederate state whose governor, Sam Houston, had resisted secession — a new Baptist congregation is birthed. The new church is the Mount Calvary Baptist Church, later known as the First Baptist Church of Richardson. The congregation is established before that of First Baptist Dallas. Church records note that members…

December 19, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 23, 1865

Delegates to the Hiwassee United Baptist Association of Tennessee, in annual meeting in Roane County, discuss and debate the recent Civil War. The South’s role in the war is considered as that of the aggressor, but the association seeks distance from political conflict and “unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.” The question…

September 23, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
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Baptists and the American Civil War: September 22, 2015

Born in Michigan in 1837, Lucius V. Lyon attended a Baptist school prior to enlisting with Company C, Sixth Michigan Infantry, August 20, 1862. Lyon fought under General Benjamin Butler in the western theater of the war, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge to Mobile, Alabama and back to New Orleans. During an engagement in…

September 22, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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