“These days are fraught with many blessings,” Julia Stanford, a teacher in Forsyth, Georgia comments this week. “Would that we had heart to appreciate them – Truly the lines have fallen in pleasant places. God’s ways are far above our poor ways.” Against the backdrop of distant battlefields and a cloudy, rainy week at home,…
In a tobacco warehouse in Richmond, Virginia, imprisoned Union officers captured at the Battle of Manassas / Bull Run await their fate. Among the prisoners until a few days ago was Abraham Edward Welch of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1st Lieutenant of Company F of the First Minnesota Infantry, son of a former chief justice of the…
Today a former neighbor of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is appointed colonel of the 4th (West) Virginia Infantry Regiment of the United States Army. The appointment of Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn (1824-1901) comes as the Union-supportive western portion of the state of Virginia is in the process of establishing itself as a state separate…