The “Jackson Greys” regiment of Virginia, formed on the grounds of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, this month is transferred to Sewell’s Point on the coast. Located at the mouth of Hampton Roads, Sewell’s Point is a major strategic coastal point in the war. On May 18-19, 1861, Federal gunboats exchanged fire with Confederate batteries…
New York Senator Ira Harris (1802-1875), close political friend of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln, is one the nation’s most prominent Baptists. His name also graces New York’s 2nd Regiment Calvary, known as the “Harris Light Calvary.” Today William O. Stoddard, White House assistant and columnist for the New York Examiner, speaks of Harris in…
Eight months into the war, as the year draws to a close, southerners are concerned about the economic prospects of the Confederacy, now isolated from the manufacturing muscle of the North. Slavery remains the economic underpinning of the South, but the region’s reliance on cotton, enabled by slave labor, is now suffering from an inability…