Eight months into the war, as the year draws to a close, southerners are concerned about the economic prospects of the Confederacy, now isolated from the manufacturing muscle of the North. Slavery remains the economic underpinning of the South, but the region’s reliance on cotton, enabled by slave labor, is now suffering from an inability…
At Camp Jenkins, Kentucky, the company commanders of the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry assemble at 3:00 PM at the Adjutant’s quarters. The purpose of this meeting is to select a regimental chaplain. Organized on June 17, the regiment consists of recruits from Adams, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga, Erie, Highland, Huron, Montgomery, Muskingum, Pickaway, and Trumbull…
Southern women, living in a male-dominated culture, play limited – but important – roles during the war. From the home front to the hospitals near the battle fronts, women maintain their families and farms and assist in doctoring and offering comfort to soldiers. Baptist women are involved in the latter as much as are other…