Following a number of letters written on his behalf to U.S. president Andrew Johnson, including one by Richard Fuller, Baltimore pastor and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist minster and editor J. R. Graves is granted amnesty. The former resident of Nashville, Tennessee returns to the state and settles in Memphis, where for…
Currency proved critical in the outcome of the war. The North was able to leverage its superior financial resources, including taking on massive quantities of debt. The South, on the other hand, never gained solid financial footing, hampered by an unbalanced economy dependent primarily on one raw product — cotton — whose value crashed due…
Independence Day celebrations return to a nation undivided. For white Southerners, many impoverished in the wake of their Confederacy’s defeat, the day is the darkest July 4th ever as free blacks and U.S. soldiers parade through Southern cities and the Emancipation Proclamation is read alongside the Declaration of Independence. Evidencing little to no regard for…