While Virginians rejoice over the halt of U.S. General George B. McClellan’s advance upon Richmond, the mood of Confederates in Tennessee is dark and brooding. While Memphis residents wake up under United States occupation, Union general James S. Negley celebrates a smaller but notable victory over a notorious Tennessee rebel. Confederate Captain A. D. Trimble,…
William R. Williams, prominent Northern Baptist pastor of Amity Baptist Church, New York, delivers the keynote address at this evening’s convening of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. The war is heavy on the minds, hearts and spirits of all present, and Williams offers no sympathy to the Southern Cause as supported by his fellow…
Baptists in the United States capital are affected by the war. Washington D.C. itself has experienced much change in the past year and-a-half in the form of an influx of newcomers who came “to fill vacancies in the civil service and to meet the demands of the times.” In short, the new Lincoln administration and…