White Southern preachers, most of whom are loyal to the Confederacy, are being singled out for punishment by the United States government, should the North win the war. Or so claims one Southern Baptist newspaper editor. Our enemies encouraged, and made confident of success, by their recent victories, are trying to decide what to do…
This week, the editor of North Carolina’s Biblical Recorder assesses the perilous times at hand, referencing McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign. No one can deny that the present is a momentous period in the history of the South. The theatre of war has been narrowing down for some time past; the grand armies which, for the present,…
Upset that his plans to engage the Confederates in Yorktown, Virginia were foiled, McClellan dispatches some 41,000 soldiers to chase the retreating Rebels. The two sides clash today in Williamsburg in an inconclusive battle that results in about 4,000 total casualties. At the end of the day, the Rebels, having bought enough time for the…