For the second time, the city of Franklin, Tennessee witnesses a bloody battle. In 1863, the Union Army defeated the Confederates at Franklin, and today the Federals do so again. Whereas the 1863 battle was a minor skirmish, however, today’s battle is an important engagement. General John Bell Hood‘s Confederate Army of the Tennessee desperately…
As Sherman overruns Georgia and Lee is pinned down in Virginia, the Confederacy has placed great military hopes in General John Bell Hood‘s invasion of Tennessee. Hope, however, far distant from reality in the rapidly-sinking Confederacy, is not to be found in Tennessee as the Federals defeat the Rebels yet again, this time in the…
Today the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of Colored People is formed in Maryland. Supported heavily by Baptists, the organization’s focus is statewide. It is one of many such similar associations formed in the North, as well as in Union-controlled areas of the South, during the second half of the Civil War.…