Presbyterian Church In The U.S

Popularly known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, it shares a common history and heritage with the larger nationwide Presbyterian Church. The southern presbyteries comprised more than a third of the Old School branch of the Presbyterian Church in the USA, and did not renounce their connection with it until the Old School assembly, meeting in Philadelphia (May 1861), adopted resolutions pledging the church's support to the Federal Union, even although most of the Southern states had already seceded and civil war had begun. The first assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States met in Augusta, Georgia (4 December), and was organized by commissioners from forty-seven Southern presbyteries. The United Synod of the South, comprising twenty-one presbyteries, was formed in 1858 by those who broke with New School Presbyterians.