Today the Little River Baptist Church resumes services, having not held worship services since October 1861. The Little River congregation is one of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of white churches whose members have the resources to resume services in Alabama this summer. Others are not so fortunate, having been permanently shuttered during the war. Autonomous black…
Sam Richards and his family, members of the Second Baptist Church of Atlanta, fled the city in the wake of Sherman’s coming and temporarily moved to New York City. With the war over, today they depart New York for the return trip to Atlanta. The Richards are among a number of white Southerners who fled…
This day Albert R. Hicks, born in 1835 and a Michigan native, is among the many Union soldiers discharged from military service. Hicks enlisted in 1864 in the First Regiment, Michigan Light Infantry, Seventh Battery. Sent to Alabama, he was involved in the capture of Port Mobile, a turning point in the war during 1864.…