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One week of searching through the National Park archives and I already have this nice stack of primary sources, and a couple old books with secondary data. Every day, I get more and more emails and leads from local historians. I’m also receiving a lot of rare, unpublished material from the church records themselves. What’s going to be a really nice benefit from this project is the ‘cross-pollination’ of information that I’ll be doing upon its completion. Everything that I get from the NPS will be copied and given to the churches. And everything that I get from the churches will be copied and handed over to the NPS. This is going to be a blessing for churches that have ‘cross-over’ history like Fredericksburg Baptist Church (a primarily white congregation) and Shiloh Baptist: Old Site, (a primarily black congregation). Many of them are missing vital pieces of their past, and I hope to help them fill a few of them. Who knows? That may be the entire ‘purpose’ behind this book. The Lord does work in mysterious ways, and everything that I have ever published has been totally gifted and guided by a higher power.