Confederate guerrillas led by “Bloody” Bill Anderson and including Jesse and Frank James, both Baptists, this evening raid Danville, Missouri, a Union-friendly town. Many citizens, recognizing the invasion, flee for the woods, escaping the carnage. Not all are so lucky as the guerrillas set fire to the town, shooting citizens who dare show themselves. Some…
Some two centuries after the colony of Maryland first allowed slavery, residents of the state of Maryland this day vote to end the peculiar institution. Although the vote is close overall, some 90% of Maryland soldiers cast ballots for the abolition of slavery. The vote by Marylanders is merely the latest in a long series…
Today Union General Ulysses S. Grant telegrams General William T. Sherman, in response to Sherman’s request to march from Atlanta to Savannah, destroying Confederate infrastructure and supplies along the way. “If you are satisfied the trip to the sea coast can be made holding the line of the Tennessee river firmly,” Grant tells Sherman, “you…