Lincoln‘s funeral train reaches New York, where his remains are placed at City Hall. Some 500,000 persons view the casket at City Hall. In Washington, word arrives that John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s killer, has been spotted in Virginia. A squad of cavalry is dispatched to track down Booth and his co-conspirator David Herold. In the…
Southern Baptist army missionary A. E. Dickinson today writes of revivals in Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. I have within a few days received the most cheering accounts from the Army of Northern Virginia. In almost every regiment protracted meetings are in progress, and souls are being born into the kingdom.…
Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside readies his attack upon Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s forces in Fredericksburg. With over 200 artillery pieces pointed over the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg and pontoon bridges ready for deployment, Burnside tries to anticipate Lee’s defensive strategy. Successfully crossing the river on the bridges is critical to a Union victory. The…