For several months, various parties have attempted to find a way to bring Union and Confederate officials to the table to negotiate a peace settlement. To date, no formal talks have taken place. Nonetheless, a new effort to arrange high level discussions offers a hint of bearing fruit. Francis Preston Blair, Sr., an aged…
Today is the second day of a meeting called by Savannah’s black clergy for the purpose of forming the Savannah Education Association. As recorded by William Richardson of the American Missionary Association, participants once again gather at the 1st African Baptist Church, the meeting house that has long served as the public center of black…
Refusing to give up, Confederate General John Bell Hood today pushes his exhausted troops to the outskirts of Union-occupied Nashville. With the Confederacy in tatters, Hood is staking the future of the South on his impending assault of the Tennessee city. Georgia is helpless to stop Sherman, while Union forces are close to Richmond. If…