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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 12, 1863
Today near the small town of Raymond, Mississippi, Confederate and Union forces clash as Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant continues his efforts to capture nearby Vicksburg. The federals, clearly outnumbering the Confederates, win the battle. The conflict results in nearly 1,000 casualties, and by midnight Raymond is filled with wounded soldiers. The Confederates turn the Courthouse and Oak Tree Hotel into hospitals, while federal forces appropriate the Baptist and Episcopal churches, Masonic Hall, Female Institute and … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 9, 1863
The Southern Baptist Convention convenes for the second day of their annual meeting, hosted by the Green Street Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia. The august gentlemen assemble at 9 a.m. and following adoption of the Order of Business, delve into business matters and half an hour in “Devotional Exercises.” The Foreign Mission Board report is the highlight of the day’s events. Few missionaries are currently on the field at a time when the war with the … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 8, 1863
The bi-annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention assembles today in the Green Street Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia (a location chosen after the original plan to meet in Columbia, Mississippi was jeopardized by the presence of the United States Army in the state). As in 1845 (the year of the formation of the SBC), the delegates are comprised solely of white males, most of whom are slave holders. Indeed, income from slavery has been … Read entire article »
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- 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)