In the Kennesaw Mountain area near Atlanta, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman continues pressing the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee toward Marietta. A portion of today’s fighting takes place at the Gilgal Baptist Church, a Hardshell Primitive Baptist log meeting house. As Federal forces near Confederate General Patrick Cleburne‘s troops who are stationed along a strategic…
Today is marked by minor skirmishes and battles in the relentless push by Union armies to concurrently reach the Confederate capital of Richmond and the strategic city of Atlanta, Georgia. Meanwhile, many Baptist congregations of the South have thus far failed to discuss the war in their record books, a reflection, to no small degree,…
The Battle of Cold Harbor is over, a battle in which Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia soundly defeats Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s the Army of the Potomac. Union casualties and losses total nearly 13,000, to the Confederates 5,300. Yet Grant, backed by a steady stream of new recruits entering Union…