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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 16, 1862
The Battle of Fredericksburg is now over, having been a humiliating defeat for the United States Army. Yet death has visited both North and South. An eyewitness account from a North Carolina Baptist soldier–a member of Reeds Baptist Church–written after the battle, recounts the carnage taking place around him in Confederate ranks on the day he was injured (December 13). The cannon ball struck our ranks for then we were in four ranks. The ball struck … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 17, 1862
“Devoted to Religion, Morality, Literature and General Intelligence.” Thus reads the tagline of North Carolina Baptists’ newspaper, the Biblical Recorder. In the spirit of that mission, and during a time when many Baptist churches of the South are struggling to keep the door’s open as the war rages on and on, this week’s edition of the paper offers sage advice to churches, under the catchy title of “Eternal Signs of a Living Church.” Sign 1st. A … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 1, 1862
Washington, D.C.’s E Street Baptist Church, the city’s leading Baptist congregation, is in turmoil. In the face of an impending split, the pastor recently resigned, and mere days earlier a significant numbers of members met to begin the formation of a new congregation (soon to be known as Calvary Baptist Church). The cause of the troubles at the E Street church are now hotly debated by members and other city residents. Some point to differences of … 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)