The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, fighting heroically less than two weeks ago during the failed assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, demonstrated the will and determination of African soldiers to engage Confederate forces despite the threat of execution if captured by the rebels. Many, perhaps most, of the soldiers of the 54th were or are…
Southern Baptist newspapers frequently appeal to Confederate soldiers to place their faith in God and hope in the afterlife, appropriating images of mothers, wives and sisters. The following appeal in circulation this week is one example: Soldier of the Southern Confederacy! –To you I would fain speak a few words, and though others wield the…
A Southern Baptist newspaper editor calls upon his readers to “never despair” in the face of recent Confederate setbacks. The Charleston Mercury reminds those who are despondent at the late reverses, that they are not to be compared with those endured by Holland and Switzerland to secure their independence, or those of Prussia in her…