Today in the hotly-contested border state of Kentucky, a Confederate cavalry force led by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, captures Paducah, Kentucky with little resistance. The raid is an effort to capture Union supplies; Paducah is a considerable prize. Meanwhile, the Union garrison, having retreated upon learning of the rebels’ approach, is garrisoned in the…
Personal morality is an overriding concern of white Southern Baptists. While black slavery is holy and biblical and killing abolitionists is God’s work, woe to a Southern Baptist church member — whether on the home front or in the Confederate Army — who dances, plays cards, goes to the theater, enjoys other worldly amusements or…
Union General Ulysses S. Grant, now in command of all Union armies, plots strategy for the coming spring and summer campaigns. Today in Cincinnati Grant wraps up a planning session with General William Tecumseh Sherman in which they discuss putting all federal armies into play simultaneously, engaging the rebels on all major fronts in an…