Isaac Gray Woolsey–physician, surgeon, and Baptist layman–has been serving as a quartermaster in the Confederate Army. Today, he resigns that position and begins organizing Company C, Eighth Tennessee Confederate cavalry. The regiment is soon assigned to Gen. N.B. Forrest’s division. As his obituary recounts: With his command he participated in all the battles in which…
A letter from an anonymous North Carolina Confederate soldier is published in today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch, lamenting the Confederate government not protecting his state’s citizens from marauding federal troops. Thinking it may be interesting to the many readers of your excellent paper and perhaps cause our Government to turn a listening ear to the plaintive…
While white Southerners carry on about the sins and evilness of the North, the Confederacy, albeit God’s chosen nation in the minds of many, is not without fault. An article in a Southern Baptist newspaper this week offers an analysis of the shortcomings of the South. Everybody is crying out against extortion, and every one…