Methodist Church (United States)
[1] The Methodist Episcopal Church had split in 1844 over the issue of slavery and the impending Civil War in America.During the American Civil War, the southern denomination was known briefly as The Methodist Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America.The Methodist Church then later merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church on April 23, 1968, to form the United Methodist Church (UMC) with its headquarters, offices and publishing houses in Nashville, Tennessee.Over the next few years most of the individual local congregations in the two bodies under the names of "Methodist Church" or "Evangelical United Brethren Church" changed the latter part of their name to: "------ United Methodist Church".The new UMC became one of the largest and most widespread denominations in America.