Today, 35-year old William E. Wiatt, formerly a Baptist pastor in Gloucester County, Virginia and currently a private in the 26th Virginia Infantry, is appointed as chaplain of his regiment. Little does Wiatt know that he will one day achieve the distinction of being one of few Confederate chaplains to serve for the duration…
The shots of the American Civil War are heard around the world … on the mission field. Today C. Bennett, the Director of the Publications Department of the American Tract Society issues his annual report regarding books and tracts published on foreign mission fields: BOOKS AND TRACTS ISSUED TO THE DIFFERENT STATIONS AS FOLLOWS: —…
Today Daniel Hubbard Willis, Jr. (born 1839) enlists in the Confederate Army at Camp Moore, Louisiana, as a Private in the 5th Company Battalion, Washington Artillery of Louisiana. In March 1864, he fights in Raxdale’s Company E of the 16th Louisiana Regiment, and is promoted to 2nd Sergeant on March 5, 1865, as the war…