As the year draws to a close following months of major Union victories on the battlefield, Peace Democrats–popularly known as “Copperheads” due to the pennies they wear as an identifying symbol, and characterized by their opposition to the war and demands for an immediate peace with the Confederate States–have lost their political momentum. Having reached…
South Carolinian Robert Smalls, a former slave who had worked in Charleston’s shipyards, became a hero to the North in May 1862 when he commandeered the Confederate transport CSS Planter in Charleston Harbor and steered the ship to safety and freedom for himself and his crew of slaves and their families, behind nearby Union naval…
An editorial in the current edition of the North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, written prior to the Confederate defeats in the Chattanooga Campaign and at Knoxville, strives to lift the spirits of white Baptists of the South. Despite the losses in Tennessee, faithful believers in the Confederate cause yet want to cling to the belief…