Today Isaac E. Howd, pastor of the Whitehall Baptist Church of New York, delivers a war-themed discourse. “God in Providence” is a sermon delivered “in memory of Sergeant L.S. Gillett, Co. C, 123d Regt., N.Y.V.” L.S. Sergeant is Leonard S., who was killed earlier this month in the Battle of Chancellorsville. Gillett is one of…
Southern Baptist army missionary A. E. Dickinson today writes of revivals in Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. I have within a few days received the most cheering accounts from the Army of Northern Virginia. In almost every regiment protracted meetings are in progress, and souls are being born into the kingdom.…
Today crowds line Boston’s Beacon Street in celebration of the deployment of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew presents the unit’s colors, after which the regiment parades down the street and to the waiting steamer De Molay for transport to Port Royal, South Carolina. Port Royal and environs, under Union control,…