Today’s New York Times reports on a correspondent’s visit to the Murfreesboro battlefield, his visit having taken place mere days following the end of the fighting in the Tennessee town. The reporter describes what he sees. …. The field and woods bear marks of heavy firing — scarcely a tree that has not its branches…
Having marshaled and prepared his forces for two days, Ambrose Burnside orders the Federal army to launch its attack at mid-morning. The main thrust centers initially on the southern end of the Confederate battle line five miles south of Fredericksburg. However, as initial success there gives way to an ultimate repulse, the attention of the…
Well into the second year of war, many Baptist churches of the Confederacy have fallen upon dire times. Today, the second oldest Baptist church in the state of Tennessee faces the realities of a war-time economy. On April 20, 1794–two years before Tennessee became the sixteenth state of the United States–Baptists from the Three Forks…