This month U.S. Army Gen. Oliver O. Howard calls for a gathering of Edisto Island’s freedmen. Howard is loathe to break the bad news to the assembled crowd, representative of some 40,000 former slaves who now till what they think are their own lands, given to them by Union General William T. Sherman earlier this…
Baptists of Kansas City were involved in the abolition movement before and during the Civil War. In the first two years of the war, runaway slaves (or contraband) found refuge in Union Army camps and towns and cities of the North. Of the latter, Leavenworth, Kansas served as a refuge for runaway slaves in the…
This month has been tension-filled in the Northern city of Cincinnati, Ohio. For weeks, the Confederate Army has lurked nearby in northern Kentucky, poking and prodding for a way to effectively attack the Queen City located across the Ohio River. Today, the latest Confederate offensive in the vicinity of Cincinnati takes place about 15 miles…