Today in Virginia the Confederacy suffers misfortune when General J.E.B. Stuart, one of the South’s best cavalry leaders, is wounded in the Battle of Yellow Tavern. While Union General Ulysses S. Grant battles Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, Grant takes advantage of his numerically superior forces by sending…
Union General Ulysses S. Grant, now in command of all Union armies, plots strategy for the coming spring and summer campaigns. Today in Cincinnati Grant wraps up a planning session with General William Tecumseh Sherman in which they discuss putting all federal armies into play simultaneously, engaging the rebels on all major fronts in an…
Rev. John William Jones of Virginia is rapidly gaining a reputation as an outstanding Confederate Baptist chaplain. Today is a hallmark day in the life of Jones, as is later recalled. Along with many other chaplains, Mr. Jones was active “in season and out of season,” preaching, distributing Bibles and other good literature, working in…