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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 10, 1865
The hanging of Henry Wirz This month in Virginia the American Baptist Home Mission society establishes the Richmond Institute, a school devoted to the training of African American preachers and...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 11, 1865
From wakeforestmuseum.org The war decimated Baptists’ Wake Forest College in North Carolina. Recent months have been “gloomy,” the buildings are damaged, “utter impoverishment” is seemingly everywhere....
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 12, 1865
In Hopkins, South Carolina the white Beulah Baptist Church today ordains William Weston Adams to the ministry. Adams is a former slave, one of three who are ordained in the post-war months of 1865 by...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 13, 1865
A Freedmen’s school. Southern Baptists, largely refusing to assist in the education of freedmen, took offense at American (Northern) Baptists sending missionaries to the South to educate their former...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 14, 1865
The Alabama Baptist State Convention, meeting today in Marion, issues a Report on the State of Religion. With the war over and Alabama occupied by Union troops, a sense of despondency hovers in the...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 15, 1865
Colorado Territory Today in Denver, Colorado Territory the Zion Baptist Church is founded by “an intrepid group of black pioneers,” most of whom had migrated to the area in recent years or months from...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 17, 1865
This week the editor of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald takes objection to Baptist newspapers in the North criticizing as “slander” an editorial he recently wrote. “The point I made was simply...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 18, 1865
In Virginia’s eastern panhandle Freewill Baptists, under the leadership of Rev. Nathan Cook Brackett, lead the way in helping establish Freedmen’s schools. A native of Maine and in the closing months...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 19, 1865
Carmel Baptist Church, in eastern Texas near the town of Lindale, is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the young state. Founded in 1853, the church began in a vacant house on Duck Creek with six...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 20, 1865
Tensions between whites and freedmen grow all the more in many towns and cities throughout the former Confederacy. In Atlanta this month black members of the white-led First Baptist Church yet use the...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 21, 1865
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida Coast Map Today leading freedmen of South Carolina gather in Charleston for the first Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina. In the heart of the...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 22, 1865
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida Coast Map The Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina continues in Charleston, held at the Zion Presbyterian Church. Many Baptists are present....
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 24, 1865
Southern Baptist newspaper editors in the post-war months find much to criticize about the religious newspapers of the North. This week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald accuses the “Northern...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 25, 1865
J. L. M. Curry Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, during the war a member of the Confederate States House of Representatives and an officer in the Confederate Army, is a prominent Southern Baptist. Now, he...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 26, 1865
Although a mass exodus of black members from white-led Baptist churches of the South is well underway, many post-war Southern Baptist churches retain large numbers of black members. In instances where...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 27, 1865
Baptists of the North in the post-war years progress both in terms of establishing new local congregations and developing new educational institutions. Progress takes place unevenly. These narratives...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 29, 1865
David L. Bryant, born 1843 in Jackson, Pennsylvania, was one of three brothers to fight in the Civil War. One brother died and two survived, including David. Enlisting in September 1862, David’s living...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 30, 1865
Today’s edition of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald continues efforts to reconstruct the Old Confederacy as a righteous slave regime that was overwhelmed by the military might of an ungodly...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 1, 1865
Today the first Convention of Colored Citizens of the State of Arkansas is gathered in Little Rock. Many Baptists are among those present. The purpose of the convention is to exert the rights of...
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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 2, 1865
Freedmen in Richmond, Virginia. Today the Fourth Baptist Church, an African American congregation, is established in Richmond, Virginia. It is one of hundreds of black Baptist churches formed in the...
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