Southerners have mixed feelings about celebrating the 4th of July. Julia Stanford, a member of the First Baptist Church of Forsyth, Georgia, captures the mood of the South: “Our great national day – Day on which our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence. Owing to the involved condition of our County – few very felt…
Isaac Ball Feagin (1833-1900, born in Jones County, Georgia) is a merchant in Midway, Alabama, following a stint as deputy sheriff of the county (Barbour). He is of the Baptist faith. Today the Midway Guards of the Fifteenth Alabama infantry – which Feagin helped organize at the beginning of the war and was elected its…
Thatcher’s Comet, the “Great Comet of 1861” A minor skirmish takes place today. In the Battle of Hoke’s Run, Union forces cross the Potomac River near Williamsport, Maryland and march toward nearby Confederate forces. The two sides encounter one another in Berkeley County, Virginia. Pushing the Confederates out of the area, Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson’s…