Baptists in the South and
the American Civil War

A Compilation of Sources and a
Proposed Research Methodology

Compiled by Bruce Gourley
January 2003


 

Archival and Special Collections*

Atlanta Historical Society (GA Baptists)
Auburn University (Howard, Manly Papers)
W. L. Balfour. Papers, MS (U. of TX, Austin)
G. A. Blount Papers (GA Historical Society)
Confederate Imprints (Alabama; WorldCat)
C. Dabney Diary, VA (Brandeis Univ., MA)

Cothran Family Papers (SC Hist. Society)
Duke University (Baptists in NC & South)
Emory University (NC Baptists; See Below)
Harrell Family Papers (UNC Charlotte)
J. C. Harris Diary, VA (NC; See Note #2)
Hill Papers, VA (NC; See Note #2)
Filson Historical Society (Kentucky)
J. R. Hopkins Family Papers (GA Archives)
Mercer University
(Georgia Baptists)
Osterhout Family Papers (Rice University)
Slover Collection (Oklahoma Univ.)
Samford University (Alabama Baptists)
Southern Bapt. Hist. Lib. & Arch. (Nashville)
Southern Baptist Theo. Seminary (Louisville)
Stone Family Papers (Florida State Univ.)
University of Kentucky (Kentucky Baptists)
UNC Chapel Hill (Baptists in NC & South)
UNC Documenting the South (Online)
University of South Carolina (SC Baptists)
University of Virginia (VA Baptists)
Virginia Historical Society (Richmond)
Wake Forest University (NC Baptists)

   

Research Notes Page     Dissertation Proposals

   
   
Partial List of Pertinent Published Works**

"Baptists and the Civil War," Baptist History and Heritage Journal Vol. 32, Nos. 3/4 (July/October
       1997).
Brown, Peter A.  Moseby's Fighting Parson:  The Life and Times of Sam Chapman (Willow Bend
       Books, 2001).
Carrin, Charles C.  Effects of the Pioneer Civil War Period on the Old Baptist Church in the
       United States
(Statesboro, GA: Primitive Baptist Minister's School, 1969).  Manuscript located at
       Samford University.
"Civil War Religion," Civil War History Journal Vol. 6, No. 4 (December 1960 ).
Copeland, E. Luther.  The Southern Baptist Convention and the Judgment of History (University
       Press of America, 1995).
Crowley, John G.  Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South: 1815 to the Present (University Press of
       Florida, 1999).
Fuller, James A.  Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South
       (Louisiana State University Press, 1995, 2000).
Harvey, Paul.  "'Yankee Faith' and Southern Redemption: White Southern Baptist Ministers, 1850-
       1890
, in Religion and the American Civil War (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press,
       1998.
Heinz, Meredith Dee.  This Promising Field: Silas Curtis and the Freewill Baptist Mission to the
       Freedmen, 1863-1870
(Dissertation: Marshall University, 1994).
Jones, Billy Walker.  Antioch Baptist Church in the Civil War Era: Twiggs County, Georgia
       (2000).  Located at Middle Georgia Regional Library Genealogy Department.
Jordon, Angleen Koch.  A History of First Baptist Church (Carrollton, GA): With Emphasis on the
       Civil War Period
(1996).  Photocopy at Mercer University.
Justus, Michael Thomas.  The Impact of the Civil War on Georgia Baptists (Dissertation: Mercer
       University, 1994).
Lee, Jonathan E.  Among the Thorns: The Effects of Civil War on the Baptist Churches of
       Northern Virginia
(1998).  Essay.  Manuscript located at Prince William Public Library, Virginia.
Link, Laurel.  Politics, Patriotism and Piety: North Carolina Baptists and the War for Southern
       Independence
(Research Paper, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1994).  Photocopy at
       Wake Forest University.
Long, Timothy.  North Carolina Baptists Fight and Write and Civil War (Paper presented at
       American Society of Church History, April 1-4, 1993, Williamsburg, VA.).  On Microfilm at Emory
       University.
Slover, James Anderson.  Minister to the Cherokees: A Civil War Autobiography (University of
       Nebraska Press, 2001).
Spain, Rufus B.  At Ease in Zion: Social History of Southern Baptists 1865-1900 (Nashville: Vanderbilt
       University Press, 1967).
Wesberry, James Pickett.  Baptists in South Carolina Before the Civil War (Dissertation: Andover
       Newton Theological School, 1935).  Manuscript located at Carson Newman College.
 

   
*NOTES CONCERNING ARCHIVE LISTINGS:
1. Collections as found in WorldCat First Search.  Archives with more than one relevant collection are listed by Institution.
2. The Harris and Hill papers are listed as being located at "NC -- Records, Ante-Bellum Southern Plantation."
3. The bulk of archival material appears to be at UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, University of Virginia, Virginia Historical Society, and Mercer University.

**NOTES CONCERNING PUBLISHED WORKS LISTING:
1. This list pertains only to White Baptists in the South.
2. This list was gleaned through WorldCat and JSTOR.
3. Works published via UNC's "Documenting the American South" Project and Confederate Imprints are not included.