Nov. 11: Veteran’s Day. Baptists have been ministering to veterans from the time of the Revolutionary War, when David Jones was a military chaplain and the Civil War, when Joanna Moore taught veterans to read and write. WW I and WWII, the Vietnam War and more recent conflicts have seen Baptist chaplains and Baptist soldiers. ABHS has the personal correspondence and diaries of David Jones and a Letterbook with two sets of letters (1865) and goodbye notes from soldiers of the 56th US Colored Infantry in Helena Arkansas (from the collection of Joanna P. Moore).
