Hunger plagues Confederate soldiers entrenched at Petersburg. A Confederate scout the previous week spotted some 3,000 head of cattle behind Union lines. Major General Wade Hampton, in turn, set about crafting a plan to steal the cattle to bolster food supplies. Today Hampton sets out with 3,000 men (one for each cow, perhaps?) via a…
Today the West New Jersey Baptist Association convenes at Pemberton. As is the case with all the Baptist associations of the North that gather this fall, the war, whether voiced or not in official records, is uppermost on the minds of the men present. Yet in the case of the West New Jersey Baptist Association,…
The war and subsequent liberation of hundreds of thousands of slaves has resulted in dramatic changes in the capital city of the United States. Tens of thousands of freedmen are now living in and around Washington, D.C., many in freedmen’s villages or communities. In these villages they are receiving education and job training and are…