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NIGHT-TIME SCENE, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOMS, COLUMBIA, S. C.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Erected in 1850, it was
here, on the 17th of December, 1860, that the "Secession"
Convention of South Carolina met and organized, ad-
journing to meet again in Charleston on the afternoon
of December 18th. At the time of Sherman's Invasion,
the original old wooden church stood close by. Inquiring
for "The Baptist Church", an old negro pointed out the
old wooden church to Sherman's troops, and it was the
old wooden church that was burned.
