Today, Abel Bingham, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, writes to his son, Judson, who is serving as a chaplain to the 20th Massachusetts. The elder Bingham, a long-time anti-slavery advocate, notes that he is pleased with President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Emancipation Proclamation. He is a staunch supporter of the United…
Defeated and humiliated at the Battle of Fredericksburg last month, Union General Ambrose Burnside now seeks revenge. Today he begins a military march that becomes known as the “Mud March.” In Jan. 1863, after the Federal defeat at the First Battle of Fredericksburg on 13 Dec., Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside sought to restore the…
Isaac Taylor Tichenor, Baptist minister, educator and orator, is arguably the most influential Baptist minister in Alabama. Prior to the war, and following a series of other pastorates in the South, Tichenor moved to Alabama to pastor the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, already emerging as a leading congregation in the South. He also took…