Refusing to give up, Confederate General John Bell Hood today pushes his exhausted troops to the outskirts of Union-occupied Nashville. With the Confederacy in tatters, Hood is staking the future of the South on his impending assault of the Tennessee city. Georgia is helpless to stop Sherman, while Union forces are close to Richmond. If…
Baptist minister and soldier J. J. Hyman is serving as a chaplain in the 49th Georgia Regiment, a unit under the command of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The troops have been in winter quarters for several months now, awaiting the battles that are to come in the spring. For chaplains, the temporary settling of…
Today South Carolina Baptist minister William L. Curry, born in 1836, is appointed as the chaplain of 50th Georgia Regiment. A graduate of Furman University and with degrees from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (all in South Carolina), Curry is well educated. Ordained in 1860, he sought appointment as a…