Today Edmond Kelley, formally a slave and now a mulatto Baptist clergyman, writes U.S. Vice President, and former Tennessee governor, Andrew Johnson. Kelley is the author of the 1851 book, A Family Redeemed from Bondage; Being Rev. Edmond Kelley, (the Author,) His Wife, and Four Children. Originally from Tennessee, Kelley currently lives in the North…
Today many white citizens of Newnan, Georgia convene in the city’s Methodist church to affirm, amidst the desolation of war visited upon their state, their commitment to the Confederate States of America. Among those present are many Baptists. A committee of 26 of “the most influential, wealthy and intelligent citizens” of the county is formed.…
As news of the Union victory at Fort Fisher (North Carolina) continues spreading throughout the North and South, U.S. General William T. Sherman, still in Savannah, is anxious to march into South Carolina. To his dismay, rain and high water serve to delay his departure. Today the American Colonization Society, an organization supported by many…