A Confederate solider, William Francis Brand of Virginia, today pens a letter to his sweetheart (Kate) in which he expresses happiness that his regiment (5th Virginia) has finally obtained a chaplain: Our Regt. has a Chaplain at last he is a Baptist thare was prayer meeting last night & night before. I hope & pray…
This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a letter from Southern Baptist Army Chaplain D. G. Daniell, who writes from Camp Causton Bluff near Savannah. ….I may mention the interest which the men manifest in religious newspapers, some thirty copies of which are circulated among them weekly, with the injunction to read and pass them…
Some war events during the summer of 1862 make little news outside of local circles. One example is the sacking and burning of Germantown, Tennessee, a small community near Memphis. The past two months have witnessed the Federal capture and occupation of the major Tennessee towns of Corinth and Memphis, victories that solidified Union control…