Kennesaw Mountain is the focus of this week’s developments in the Atlanta Campaign. Confederate General Joseph Johnston and Union General William T. Sherman jockey for position, each striving to surround the other’s forces, with neither gaining the decisive upper hand. One of the many officers involved in this day’s maneuvers and skirmishes is Union Captain…
Today Missouri Baptist pastor Jonathan B. Fuller writes a letter from Kansas City addressed to his father back East. Fuller’s words reflect the ongoing tension in the near West border states, tensions that garner little notice in the midst of major battle campaigns in Virginia and Georgia. As Fuller relates, Sunday church attendance has been…
Today off the coast of France the Confederate’s prize naval warship, the CSS Alabama, is sunk by the USS Kearsarge in the Battle of Cherbourg. With the sinking of the Alabama, what little hope the Confederacy had left on the high seas is gone, as virtually the entire Southern coast is effectively blockaded by the…