A commentary piece in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder implores Southern Baptists to pray for the soldiers of the Confederacy: I conversed with a Lieutenant recently, who was in the bloody battle of Gettysburg. He related many incidents of the horrid strife; told how friends fell around him on every side; spoke of…
Today the Union captures Little Rock, Arkansas in the Battle of Bayou Fourche. Afterwards, state Confederate forces retreat to Arkadelphia and Rockport and establish a new state capitol at Washington, in Hempstead County. The fall of Little Rock further fragments the Confederate nation as the Southwest is increasingly isolated from the rest of the South.…
Union forces, advancing ever southward, are pressuring Texas, intent on occupying a portion of the southwestern state. Today Union naval forces move up the Sabine River in a second attempt (the first being the prior year) of trying to gain control of the waterway at Sabine Pass. Today the offensive meets stiff resistance from Confederate…