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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 16, 1863
This week Basil Manly Jr., co-editor of the newly-formed Baptist Sunday School Board along with John A. Broadus, from South Carolina sends a letter under a flag of truce to Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Manly is desperate to obtain New Testaments for use in Sundays Schools in Southern Baptist congregations, yet Bibles are hard to come by in the Confederacy, due to the Union occupation of Nashville. In Southern Baptist … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 15, 1863
Confederate soldier Rev. Lucratus Hodges “Cratus” Foster, born in Cass County, Texas in 1842, is a soldier in the 9th Texas Cavalry. Having enlisted on February 14, 1862, the Baptist layman bears the physical and mental scars of war. His left hand is now mangled and essentially useless, and he has served time as a Union prisoner in Alton, Illinois. Since April, he has been ill most of the time. This month he is declared … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 14, 1863
Confederate General Robert E. Lee, on the march northward, is placing pressure on the United States Army. Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell, moving down the Shenandoah Valley in the direction of Pennsylvania, today battles a Union garrison at Winchester, Virginia. By nightfall the Confederates have effectively defeated the Union forces, who begin quietly withdrawing under the cover of nightfall. In this Second Battle of Winchester, the Confederates capture the Virginia town and take many Union … 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)