Today’s edition of the Port Royal-published New South Newspaper, the Union-produced publication of federally-occupied coastal South Carolina, notes an upcoming fund raiser to be held at the First African Baptist Church of Hilton Head. A special effort to raise money for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late Col. Shaw, of…
South of Union-controlled Chattanooga, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, seeking to regain ground from the federals, engages Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans’ Union forces. Thus begins the Battle of Chickamauga. Although Union lines successfully hold today in the face of a heavy assault, the morrow brings reinforcements from the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of…
Today Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky and a Confederate supporter, journals her anxieties about her nation and family. Have been busy about many things to day, but one subject is on my mind and in my heart almost forever when awake, let me be doing what I…