While white Southern Baptist elites fervently defend bondage as God’s will for blacks and fret over the possibility of a future without riches and comfort derived from the labor of black slaves, Northern (American) Baptists celebrate the impending freedom that they feel certain is the future of all blacks, as well as the will of…
The Battle of the Wilderness ends inconclusively when Union General Ulysses S. Grant, facing a well-entrenched Confederate foe, withdraws from the field and turns toward Spotsylvania Courthouse in an effort to reposition his troops between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia and Richmond, the Confederate capital. The three day battle has left…
In Virginia, the fighting resumes on the second day of the Battle of the Wilderness. Casualties again number in the thousands during a long day of bloody but inconclusive clashes. During the fighting, both sides fail to take advantage of opportunities that might have shifted the battle’s momentum. By nightfall, both Union and Confederate forces…