Today the Missouri Baptist General Association convenes, two years following the last meeting, held in 1863. Missouri, while not a part of the Southern Confederacy, was a divided state during the war. The big question at hand is whether or not the state organization will re-affiliate with the Southern Baptist Convention. In an effort to…
Following yesterday’s victory in the Battle of Five Forks at Petersburg, Grant determines to make a frontal offensive on Lee‘s defenses. In the predawn hours of a Sunday morning, Gen. Horatio Wright’s Sixth corps emerge from their trenches and break through the Rebel lines, followed by offensives on the part of the Second and Ninth…
Economics is never far from the minds of the leaders of both the United States and the Confederate States. A year ago this week U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the National Currency Act, creating a national banking system, a Currency Bureau and the office of Comptroller of the Currency. The act’s primary purpose was to…