Many northern Christians, including many Baptists, are convinced of the righteousness of the Union cause: the unity of the American nation and freedom for African slaves. This certainty leads the Young Men’s Christian Association of Albany, New York to petition for a Battery Regiment. Today the Independent Battery, Flying Artillery is authorized, under the leadership…
Six months into the war, some Northern Baptist clergy are enlisting in the Union army – not as chaplains, but rather as soldiers. Memories of an earlier generation of Baptists fighting in the Revolutionary War resonate among Civil War-era Baptists. Among today’s enlistees is Daniel Haskell Burdick, Illinois Baptist minister and farmer. Burdick’s service is…
The day is marked by two momentous events, one to the West and one to the East. Both impact the war. Westward, “workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company link the eastern and western telegraph networks of the nation at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allows instantaneous…