African Slavery

Baptists and the American Civil War: November 4, 1864

Today a 10-day Confederate siege of Union-controlled Fayetteville, Arkansas comes to a quiet end. Fayetteville has been under Union control since September 1863. The state was reconstructed with a Union-loyalist government in January 1864, although Confederate forces, consisting primarily of cavalry forces and Rebel guerrillas, maintain influence and even control over certain portions of the…