As the spring campaigns move into late May with no significant victories on the part of the Confederacy, the rhetoric over black slavery, the cause of the war as long acknowledged South and North, escalates. White Baptist leaders in the South, banking on the South’s antebellum foundation of white supremacy, work hard to keep white…
Today Union General Ulysses S. Grant‘s march south of the North Anna River is brought up short on the river banks by yet another brilliant defensive maneuver effected by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Thus the next battle of the Overland Campaign begins, the Battle of North Anna. For three days the armies of the…
The war has displaced many families North, South and in-between. The later includes the Wallace family of Paducah, Kentucky, an Upper South state that opted for neutrality rather than join the Confederacy. Philip Hugh Wallace practiced law prior to the war, earning a good living for his family thanks to the slave-based economy of the…