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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 9, 1862
While war is uppermost on the minds of many Baptists in the North, life otherwise carries on as much as possible. Today, the music program of the First Baptist Church of Peoria, Illinois is the subject of a lengthy letter to the editor published in the Peoria Morning Mail, and written by an unidentified “lady.” Dear Mail:–I don’t profess to be a connoisseur in musical matters, nothing more than an amateur, but am passionately fond of … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 8, 1862
Today the war momentarily fades to the background as Baptists of Muncie, Indiana celebrate a milestone. Founded at the courthouse on September 11, 1859, the First Baptist Church of Muncie met for weekly worship at the courthouse for the following two-plus years. On January 12, 1861, the congregation voted to build a meeting house, and today the edifice is dedicated by Silas Bailey, a leading Baptist minister of the state and the president of Franklin College, a … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 2, 1862
Fires burn brightly through the night, followed by a smoky sunrise over the town of Princeton, (present-day) West Virginia in Mercer County. (At the moment, West Virginia is in the process of official recognition as a state carved out of Virginia.) Princeton lies near the Virginia and Tennessee rail line, and is thus considered strategic by both the North and the South. Federal troops in recent weeks have been advancing upon the railroads in Virginia, driving … 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)