In Galveston, Texas, this month the Baptist-supported American Missionary Association and the Freedmen’s Bureau conduct “Sunday schools and church services in addition to regular school.” One Sunday school among Freedmen, touted as the largest in town, boasts some fifty students who are reading the Bible, an impressive achievement in the context that only a few…
The aptly-named Lafayette Church (1816-1907) is a Baptist minister who during the war pastored the First Baptist Church of Alma, Michigan, when not soldering. A captain in Company D, 26th Michigan Infantry during the war, he was commissioned unit chaplain on April 2, 1864. Today he musters out of military service at Alexandria, Virginia. While…
Wasting no time, today Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia takes position in front of Union General Ulysses S. Grant‘s Army of the Potomac. The federals, having crossed the Rapidan River only yesterday, number some 120,000, nearly twice the size of Lee’s army. Along the Orange Turnpike and Orange Plank Road, parallel…