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Burned by the Rebels: A Civil War Story

August 19, 2021

Rocky Spring Presbyterian Church. Located about two miles west of Chambersburg, Pa. Founded in 1734. Present building erected in 1794. [Pearl ID: 14120]

The Presbyterian Historical Society strongly encourages churches to send their original records of permanent value to us to protect them from all the usual calamities that befall historic documents....

Author:

Sonia

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Civil War, Genealogy, Congregational Records

Charles Hodge: A Conservative Theologian Finds His Way to Emancipation

April 17, 2018

--by Richard Reifsnyder

Powerful reaction to the Alt-right demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017 and the controversies surrounding monuments honoring southern military figures remind us that the issues of the Civil War are with us yet. I recently taught a course on the Civil War in my community’s adult lifelong learning center, and the students discovered that the moral wrestling of that time was surprisingly relevant for our own. Issues of race...

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Guest Blogger

Tags:

Civil War, Slavery, Evangelism

Calls of Duty: John Barr Clark and the Civil War

April 7, 2017

--By Christopher D. George

Little did the elders and members of the Second United Presbyterian Church of Allegheny City, PA, know what they were getting themselves into during the summer of 1860. Being “destitute of a fixed Pastor,” a call was made for Rev. John Barr Clark, then a little-known minister in Canonsburg, PA, to lead the church and take “charge of our souls.” Soon after Rev. Clark accepted this...

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Guest Blogger

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Civil War, Pittsburgh, Congregations

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Burned by the Rebels: A Civil War Story

Charles Hodge: A Conservative Theologian Finds His Way to Emancipation

Calls of Duty: John Barr Clark and the Civil War