Now fully on the march westward and southward from Atlanta, Union General William T. Sherman‘s army is spread out from the vicinity of Jackson to Oxford. His exact intentions are unclear to citizens of Georgia, yet many cities and towns in the potential path of the army have little, if any, resources to prepare defenses.…
While black Baptists of the South joyfully celebrate their growing liberation from slavery and into freedom, many white Baptists pray all the harder for God to save the Southern regime of white supremacy and black enslavement. Today in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Dr. Lansing Burrows, pastor of the city’s First Baptist Church, opens the…
One day after departing from Atlanta proper on the March to the Sea, the army of U.S. General William T. Sherman destroys the railroad track to the north of Stone Mountain (the city having been effectively destroyed by the Federals in July). White citizens had fled when the Union army approached the day before. When…