The Civil War has resulted in increased religious sentiment, both South and North. Within the United States, the surge or religiosity takes form, partly, in a movement to place a tribute to God on U.S. coinage. Peculiarly, the request to the government that initiated the move toward recognizing God on coinage began with a Baptist…
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, following a series of Union battlefield victories over the past six months, senses momentum on the side of the United States in the war against the rebellious Southern states. The Union now controls much of the South, and some states are ready for their governments to be rebuilt. In addition, the…
A large crowd assembles in the Masonic Hall in Savannah, Georgia to hear the reading of an essay written by local hero and popular orator George Anderson Gordon, a colonel in the 63rd Georgia Regiment. Gordon’s regiment is charged with defending the Georgia and South Carolina coasts, whose waterways are now largely blockaded by the…