Tonight, I am going to begin the first of a number sessions where we’re going to talk about Auburn First Baptist Church. This is the last session where I’m going to embed that in a much larger—and I think more more important—story. And so, from here on out, I’m going to be talking more about…
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Between 1861 and 1865, one in five white Alabama males of military age lost their lives to disease or combat. East Alabama Male College shut its doors. First Baptist Church, which met only once a month, became a Confederate military hospital. Whether one believes in miracles, lots of Confederate soldiers wounded in the defense of…