Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch reports of early movements of Sherman‘s army out of Savannah. “One corps of Sherman’s army has been sent to Hilton Head in transports.–Large bodies of troops have moved from Savannah into Carolina within the past few days. Our informant thinks a movement on Branchville is intended; and, if successful, from thence…
While black Baptists of the South joyfully celebrate their growing liberation from slavery and into freedom, many white Baptists pray all the harder for God to save the Southern regime of white supremacy and black enslavement. Today in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Dr. Lansing Burrows, pastor of the city’s First Baptist Church, opens the…
Today’s main battlefield action takes place in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. In what is known as the Third Battle of Winchester (or the Battle of Opequon), in fierce fighting Union General Philip Sheridan‘s forces prevail over those of Confederate General Jubal Early. Reflecting the desperation on the part of the Confederates to find some way to…