California Republican Cornelius Cole, reflecting on U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s frequent use of humor, relates the following story told by Lincoln, a former Baptist: “That in early times there were only three churches in Springfield, the Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist, all orthodox, when suddenly there came along a smart young Universalist minister and began to…
Noah Van Reeve is a Confederate soldier serving in the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company E. Like many soldiers, he left his family to serve in the army. Today, Reeve sits down and writes a letter to his wife, Frances, telling her about his condition, instructing her in regards to his slaves, and asking God’s…
Rev. David G. Young, born in New York in 1829 and orphaned as a young boy, today enlists in Company D, Eighty-first Regiment Illinois Infantry. During his service he spends time in Confederate prisons and falls victim to yellow fever. Yet he survives the war, in the post-war era serving for a number of years…