Many white Southerners keep a keen eye on happenings in Washington, D.C., hopeful that political unrest in the North may yet lead the United States to make peace with the Confederate States. Many Northern Democrats continue clamoring for peace. At this moment, a political victory seems more likely than a military victory. President Abraham Lincoln…
The citizens of middle Georgia yet live far from any battlefield action, despite Union encroachments as far south as the state’s coastal islands and, since the fall of 1863, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Accordingly, the town of Macon, the region’s largest city, in recent months has become a hub of hospitalized Confederate soldiers, their numbers growing daily.…
Mere weeks after U. S. President Abraham Lincoln offers amnesty to white Southerners who pledge loyalty to the United States and encourages Southern states to take steps to be readmitted to the Union, many Confederate citizens are seriously considering Lincoln’s offer. Lincoln is hopeful that his olive branch will quickly peel off Arkansas and Tennessee…