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Baptists and the American Civil War: March 19, 1863
Francis Wayland (1796-1865), venerable Northern Baptist minister, educator and author, is in the twilight of his career. Having served as the president of Brown University (1827-1855) and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island (1857-1858), Brown now devotes his time to writing. Having long ago published his anti-slavery views in a prior volume, this year marks the publication of Wayland’s ninth book. Letters on the Ministry of the Gospel focuses on pastoring … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: March 18, 1863
Southern Baptist minister J. D. Hufham, editor of the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina, addresses his view of the current situation in the Confederacy as winter turns into spring and the second anniversary of the war nears. Winter is gone, and Spring is here. We feel it in the atmosphere and see it in the changing appearance of the forest and the field. But its return brings with it, little of the buoyancy of thought and … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: March 17, 1863
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 prevent a Union victory. Having outfought the Confederates in the Battle of Kelly’s Ford, Averell and his cavalrymen withdraw back … Read entire article »
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Recommended Works
- A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (Genovese)
- Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause (Wilson)
- Broken Churches, Broken Nations (Goen)
- Chaplain to the Confederacy: B. Manly
- Conditions of Antebellum Slavery
- Creation of Confederate Nationalism (Faust)
- God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (Rable)
- Religion and the ACW (Historiography)
- Religion and the American Civil War (Miller, Stout, Reagan)
- Religion in the CW: Northern Perspective (Moorhead)
- Southern Baptists and Blacks, 1845-1895
- The Civil War as Theological Crisis (Noll)
- When Slavery Was Called Freedom (Daly)
Archival Collections (Baptists and the American Civil War)
- American Baptist Historical Society Collection (Mercer University, Atlanta)
- Georgia Baptist History Depository (Mercer University Macon)
- Samford University Special Collections (Birmingham, Alabama)
- South Carolina Baptist Historical Collections (Furman University, Greenville)
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Virginia Baptist Historical Society (University of Richmond)