The waning of Confederate fortunes is paralleled by decreasing enthusiasm among white Southern Baptists in relation to army revivals. While reports of army revivals yet dot Southern Baptist newspapers, the amount of copy space has shrunk and the editorial ebullition is diminished. Part of the reason is the simple fact that there is too much…
With the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery having passed the United States Senate and awaiting approval of the House, the attention of the North is increasingly focused on bringing the war to a conclusion so that freedom might be extended to blacks yet enslaved. The state of Massachusetts, and Boston in particular, has for decades been…
While military armies are the most visible manifestations of the war between the Confederate States and United States, sailors, vastly smaller numerically than soldiers, also play an integral role in the great conflict. The North’s strategy of containing and isolating the South depends heavily upon blockading the enemy’s port cities, while conversely the Confederacy suffers…