This week Richmond’s Leigh Street Baptist and several other city churches devise a plan to help care for poor citizens of the Confederate capital city during the coming winter months, as reported by today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch. Our readers will be glad to see that suitable efforts are being made to take care of the…
Ohio native, outlaw and Confederate raider William Quantrill is on the run with about 300 men. On August 21, Quantrill and some 450 men had attacked Lawrence, Kansas and murdered 183 men and boys. Lawrence was the home of U.S. Senator James H. Lane, a leading voice in keeping slavery out of Kansas. Lane had…
Some war stories are stranger than fiction. Such is the case with the story of 29-year old Robert Franklin Hamilton (1834-1923) from Hendersonville, North Carolina, who today, in Knoxville, Tennessee, enrolls in the 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Mounted Infantry, a Union regiment. Earlier in the war, in 1862 a newly-married Hamilton joined the army of…