While Washington D.C. is alarmed at the news of a possible Confederate invasion (which comes of naught in the days ahead), further to the north this month the pastor of the Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York composes a song that will be long remembered. Robert Lowry (1826-1899) is a Philadelphia native who…
Today Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early’s 14,000-strong force is en route to what is to be a bold, and hopefully surprise, invasion of Washington, D.C. Fortunately for the Union, the Rebels are intercepted east of Frederick, Maryland by a Union force led by Major General Lew Wallace and numbering about 5,800. The clash becomes…
The First Baptist Church West Main Street, Charlottesville, Virginia, an African American congregation, traces its beginnings to March 16, 1863. That was the day that some 800 black members of the Charlottesville Baptist Church petitioned the church’s white leaders to allow them to form their own congregation. Today their request is finally granted, and the…