Baptists and the American Civil War (A New Website)

[Bruce Gourley]

[Stephen Fox]

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20 ... rocky-top/

I think you covered similar in last issue of Baps Today

[Stephen Fox]

Bruce: Liked your piece in latest Baps Today and the segueway into Crawford Toy. Was looking for the Noll Quote about Lincoln, Dickinson and Whitman and the fundamentalist juggernaut after the War.

Hoping to read your book sometime in the new year after Caravaggio bio
Reminder to self, got some correspondence from the 80's gonna share publicly on this board with you; clippings for future Baptist reference

[Gene Scarborough]

[Stephen Fox]

Was talking to my first cousin on my Mom's side last night, James Patrick Jordan, a graduate of Crossville, Alabama High School, now in Tucson.

He said my Grandfather Jordan's Dad, James Sanders Jordan, along with his Brother Henry Rufus both joined the Union side in the Civil WAr with the Alabama Vidette Regiment. The Other Bama Union Regiment so impressed General Sherman he used some of them as his body guard, and according to my cousin that regiment was the only Union group from the South to present both Black and white soldiers. That Group as I understand my cousin was from around Winston County, west of Cullman; and it was Winston County that produced the great Lincoln Republican of the 1960's, Atticus Finch in the flesh, Judge Frank Johnson.

[Stephen Fox]

A public question for Dr. Gourley. Bruce, in the Nov issue of Baps Today, you talk about the Basin River boys of Richmond, Va rocking negroes and local reports about deaths and pop skull of their "adamantine" head. I think I have an idea about the phrase, but could you expound a little on the etymology.

E. L. Doctorow in his his masterpiece Sherman's March, is excellent in using vocabulary of the era in his historical novel.