In the state of Missouri, loyalties are divided. While the state remains with the Union during the war, some citizens fight for the Confederacy. Baptists comprise some of the older and more prominent families in Greene County during the war years. Some Baptist men fight for the South, and others for the North. But not…
Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe (August 20, 1832 – January 16, 1913) – otherwise known as Professor Lowe – uses his flying balloon to spy on Confederate camps near Fairfax, Virginia. Union calvarymen are dispatched to locate the Confederates, but come up empty-handed. Lowe is a pioneering aeronaut, scientist and inventor. In July U.S. President Abraham…
The Richmond Howitzers 3rd Company forms at the Baptist Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. Soon attached to the 1st Regiment Virginia Artillery, it later becomes an independent company assigned to J.T. Brown’s and R.A. Hardaway’s Battalion of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. “They served in the Richmond area and were actively engaged from the Maryland Campaign…