Today columnist William O. Stoddard of the New York Examiner writes: Senator Harris, of New-York, has been here for several days, and is looking in much better health than during the last session of Congress. New York Senator Ira Harris (1802-1875) is one of President Lincoln’s “most frequent evening visitors,” a reference both to the…
From today’s Tennessee Baptist newspaper, although apparently written a few days or weeks earlier, an article entitled “The Mary Sharp College and the War”: We have just returned from Winchester. On our way there we met with Prof. McCall, and some students of Union University returning home in the South, and learned from them the…
Addressing the Congress of the Confederate States of America, President Jefferson Davis discusses the need to make a south-wide assessment of the arms and munitions available to the Confederacy for the protection of Southern families from possible hostile action on the part of the United States of America. Meanwhile, New York Baptist layman and businessman…