A group of Baptists come to the White House with a petition, as does a group of Methodists. While maintaining an open door policy in regards to religious leaders, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is apparently busy this day and unable to visit with the delegations. Perhaps the president is preoccupied with news from the Wilderness…
Anxieties North and South are high. The moment of truth is mere days to come. The United States and Confederate States, both weary of war, steel for yet another season of bloodshed and anguish. This most uncivil of wars was never expected to last this long. The public is nervous, politicians are wary, and soldier…
Religion, long woven into the fabric of the South prior to the war, was used an ideological weapon against the abolitionist North decades before the war began. More to the point, white religion is that which has served to uphold the moral and biblical righteousness of white supremacy and African slavery while creating a Christian…