Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s invasion of Pennsylvania today meets resistance in the town of Hanover. The encounter begins when Confederate Major Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry attacks a Union cavalry regiment and forces the federal forces to retreat through the streets of Hanover. The Confederate retreat, however, proves to be momentary. A brigade arrives to…
Traveling with Henry Ward Beecher in England in June, Rochester Theological Seminary Baptist educator and abolitionist John H. Raymond joins Beecher in making stirring anti-slavery speeches in Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, and London, in an effort to prevent England from siding with the Confederacy. While Beecher is the main draw, Raymond also delivers speeches. Later,…
Colonel William S. Christian, a physician and Baptist layman now commanding the 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment of of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia that is invading Northern soil, today writes to his wife of their advance northward. Camp near Greenwood, Pa., June 28, 1863 My own darling Wife : I have…