The Confederate Congress and Confederate President Jefferson Davis issue a call for 100,000 volunteer soldiers to serve for twelve months. Yet uncertainty surrounds the fate of Deep South states not yet committed to the southern cause; Union sentiment remains strong in Tennessee and North Carolina. In the Upper South, Virginia is tipping toward secession. Meanwhile,…
A mere twenty-four hours after Abraham Lincoln takes the U. S. presidential oath, the Confederate States of America, disdainful of the “black” U. S. president (as they call Lincoln), unveils the “Stars and Bars,” the first Confederate flag, while Texas formally accepts Confederate statehood. White Baptist reaction in the South is mixed. While Basil Manly,…
Abraham Lincoln, raised a Baptist, is inaugurated (photo) as the 16th president of the United States of America in front of a partially finished United States Capitol. Reviled by southern white slaveholders as the “Black” president – because of their certainly that Lincoln will put an end to African slavery in the Union – Lincoln’s…