Traveling with Henry Ward Beecher in England in June, Rochester Theological Seminary Baptist educator and abolitionist John H. Raymond joins Beecher in making stirring anti-slavery speeches in Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, and London, in an effort to prevent England from siding with the Confederacy. While Beecher is the main draw, Raymond also delivers speeches. Later,…
Colonel William S. Christian, a physician and Baptist layman now commanding the 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment of of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia that is invading Northern soil, today writes to his wife of their advance northward. Camp near Greenwood, Pa., June 28, 1863 My own darling Wife : I have…
The tension mounts in the North as U.S. General Robert E. Lee remains largely unopposed in his invasive foray. In the South, hopes are high that the invasion might be the turning point of the war that forces the United States to seek peace with the Confederacy. Today York, Pennsylvania is the focus of the…