Following the remarkable rise of the Methodist Episcopal Church's Holston Conference in eastern Tennessee, which had grown from its founding in early 1865 to more than eighteen thousand members, a second Methodist Conference was organized in Tennessee called the "Tennessee Conference." Founded on this date the new conference already had almost twenty-eight hundred members. The Methodists, an anti-slavery denomination before the war, were growing strongly across the South. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Methodists," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 489,