The Confederacy continues winding down. This month the one remaining Confederate medical laboratory, located in Columbia, South Carolina, shutters its doors. There is not much left in the largely empty building when the keys are handed over to a Union officer in the city. While the remaining vestiges of Confederate government properties are turned over…
The war may be over, but many Southern Baptist preachers remain opposed to the “fanaticism” (a common Southern word to describe abolitionism) of Baptist preachers of the North, particularly now that slaves have been emancipated, thereby effectively destroying the slave-driven economy of the South. This month a battle of essays plays out in the Kentucky…
In the Treaty of Doaksville in Indian Territory, Confederate Native Americans surrender this day. As stated in the treaty, the Choctaw Nation, allies with the Confederacy during the war, “do agree at once to return to their respective homes and there remain at peace with United States, and offer no indignities, whatever, against the whites…