Near Springfield, Missouri the first major Civil War battle in the western theater wages. At 5 A.M. Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon’s U.S. Army of the West faces off with Confederate Brig. Gen. Ben McCulloch’s troops at Wilson Creek, twelve miles southwest of Springfield. By morning’s end, the Confederates emerge victorious in the Battle of Wilson’s…
Today Joseph Moses Perryman, future chief of the Creek Nation and future Baptist, enlists in the Confederate Army in Company H First Creek Regiment of Mounted Volunteers. Joining many other Creek Indians who serve in the Confederate Army, Joseph remains in uniform for the duration of the war. Born in 1833 to the grandson of…
Union sentiment remains high in parts of Tennessee. By the thousands Union sympathizers flee to Kentucky to escape conscription into the Confederate Army, from whence many join the Union army. One such man is Lindsay Cooper, a Baptist who survives the war and becomes a successful preacher, missionary and evangelist in his home state: Lindsay…