Today the Milledgeville (GA) Southern Recorder offers an analysis of the war and reports on the recent Confederate national day of fasting: The present stillness denotes an approaching commotion in the war elements, which is soon to shake the country. Preparations on a large scale have been made by both parties for the conflict, and…
Today Uriah King, a Baptist, Illinoisan, and the son of southern-born parents and grandparents, enlists in Company E, Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry. Few soldiers experience as much time inside Confederate prison camps as does King: Uriah King obtained a common school education and was reared to farm life. He has seen the county develop from a…
The history of the Frying Pan Baptist Church of Virginia goes back to the Revolutionary War. Today and beyond, however, the church’s meeting house plays a minor role in the story of the Civil War. The meeting house, located next to a road that is frequently used for troop movement during the war, is the…