Today the Atlanta campaign continues with the Battle of Dallas, so named after the nearby community of Dallas. Union and Confederate forces entrench and probe one another’s lines. The rebels attack, twice, but are repulsed both times, suffering high casualties. The two sides then settle behind their fortifications. In the days ahead, Union General William…
As he has done daily since early May, Union General William T. Sherman relentlessly pressures the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee, in the process drawing ever closer to the key Georgia city of Atlanta. Attempting to make an end run around Confederate General Joe Johnston‘s forces, Sherman’s troops swing wide to the left of the rebels,…
As the spring campaigns move into late May with no significant victories on the part of the Confederacy, the rhetoric over black slavery, the cause of the war as long acknowledged South and North, escalates. White Baptist leaders in the South, banking on the South’s antebellum foundation of white supremacy, work hard to keep white…