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October 20: Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur [1837-1864]

Saturated with Scripture Just last year, on October 20, 2014, a Civil War monument to Confederate General Stephen Dodson Ramseur was rededicated near Belle Grove National Historic Park in Virginia…

davidtmyers 20 October, 2015

August 15: Of Presbyteries, Synods, & General Assemblies

We continue this week with the remainder of Chapter VII of PRESBYTERIANISM FOR THE PEOPLE, by the Rev. Robert P. Kerr (1883). Please keep in mind that the author here…

archivist 15 August, 2015

July 29: Moses Waddell [1770-1840]

Teaching a Nation’s Leaders Considered by many to have been the foremost educator in the South, Moses Waddell was of Irish parentage and was born in Rowan (now Iredell) county,…

archivist 29 July, 2015

March 20: Rev. James Alexander Bryan

Please note that there was a typo in yesterday's post, and that the correct death year for Dr. Carl McIntire was 2002, not 2005. That error was corrected yesterday evening.…

archivist 20 March, 2015

March 18: The Presbyterian Journal

The End of an Institution The first issue of The Southern Presbyterian Journal appeared in May of 1942. Dr. L. Nelson Bell, Dr. Henry B. Dendy and a handful of…

archivist 18 March, 2015