Baptist Church Membership in the South in 1861
From the Tennessee Baptist
The proportion of total members in a State to each Baptist church is,
in Arkansas, a little over 36;
in Texas, a little over 41½;
in Florida, a little under 46½;
in Louisiana, a little over 48½;
in Mississippi and in Tennessee, a little under 70;
in Alabama, a little over l74½;
in Georgia, a little under 82½;
in South Carolina, a little over 130;
in Virginia a little under 141;
in all the Confederate States, a little under 83 1/3.
[From Tennessee Baptist, J. R. Graves, editor, October 5, 1861, p. 2, c. 4. - jrd]
