John James Price (1835-1913), native Kentuckian and Baptist layman, is a 2nd Corporal in Company L, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Confederates. Price’s wife, Mary “Mollie” Elizabeth Bradley (they were married in 1845), native of Wilson County, Tennessee, like other women has long worried that her husband will not survive the war. The couple’s children miss their…
In the midst of a relative lull in the Atlanta Campaign, Union armies under General William T. Sherman seek to obtain a better position from which to launch a new offensive. Meanwhile, Major General A. J. Smith leaves LaGrange, Tennessee today with more than 14,000 troops. Marching southward, Smith’s mission is to prevent Confederate Major…
While the Overland and Atlanta campaigns dominate the battlefield news this month, Union forces periodically collide with Confederates in skirmishes in Louisiana and Arkansas as the Federal troops slowly but systematically extend their presence in the western theater of the war. One such small clash occurs today in the Battle of Old River Lake (also…