Today the Confederates emerge victorious in a minor but significant battle that is part of the Overland Campaign. In the Battle of Petersburg, Rebel forces repel an attempt by a contingent of the Union Army under General Benjamin Butler to enter Petersburg from the South. The Union loss is due in part to timidity on…
Controversy and division reigns as national Republicans meet in Baltimore for the second day of their nominating convention. Some Republicans, known as Radical Republicans, refuse to meet in Baltimore. Radical Republicans believe Lincoln is being too lenient on the states of the Confederacy in his offer, put forth in December 1863, to bring back into…
As has typically been the case in the history of the American South to the this point, slave marriages are rarely recognized as legitimate by masters, courts or churches. Yet some exceptions do exist, at least in part, as is evidenced by a marriage ceremony that takes place this day at the May’s Lick Baptist…