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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 15, 1865

With the war officially over, hundreds of Confederate soldiers are paroled daily, effectively forgiven for their involvement in the rebellion against the United States and permitted to go home. Among Baptist soldiers paroled this day are F. W. Eason of South Carolina and James Harris of Georgia. Eason, baptized in 1858 by the venerable Basil…

May 15, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 26, 1865

Although Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph Johnston a week earlier agreed on terms for a surrender of Jonston’s remaining army, the last large body of Confederate forces, officials in Washington D.C. rejected those terms as too lenient on the Confederacy. Subsequently, Jefferson Davis rejected Union demands for harsher conditions, and from…

April 26, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 18, 1865

Three days after the assassination that stunned a war-torn nation, the body of Abraham Lincoln is placed on public display at the White House. Fittingly, the president who maintained an open door to American citizens is now lying in an open casket. Through Lincoln’s presidential door routinely walked poor and rich, whites and free blacks.…

April 18, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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