Seven people join the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church of Choctaw County, Alabama. All are from one family, and their entry into church membership is a microcosm of the reasons underlying the warfare between South and North. The family is the Bloxom family. Three white members join Mount Pisgah today: Albert Bloxom, wife Amanda, and sister…
Today, Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky, reflects upon the recent Confederate victory at the first battle of Manassas / Bull Run, fought three days prior: A great battle has been fought in old Virginia between the North, East & West against the South, who is battling alone…
To the West, Missouri remains a hotly contested state. While the state remains within the Union, many Missourians serve in the Confederate army. In some instances Missouri families are divided in sentiments, and brother fights against brother. Such is the case with Alexander and James Moore of Farmington. Today Alexander, age nineteen, enlists with the…