Today the last Confederate surrender takes place across the Atlantic Ocean in Liverpool, England, where the CSS Shenandoah, the only Confederate vessel to circumnavigate the globe, lowers her flag for the final time. The Confederate Navy thus comes to an end. Meanwhile, a few days out of Boston harbor aboard the schooner H. P. Russell,…
The Portsmouth Baptist Association of Virginia assembles at the Blackwater Baptist Church in Prince Anne County. Delegates voice approval of a statewide Baptist committee formed in June “to provide for the education of children of deceased and disabled Confederate soldiers, and that we earnestly urge our brethren to help in this good work.” A resolution…
Today on a farm near Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio a son is born to staunch Baptist parents, the father a farmer and veteran of the Civil War. Growing up in the late decades of the century, Warren G. Harding becomes a newspaperman, following in his father’s footsteps (in addition to farming and a medical…