New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania native William M. Moore, born 1835, is among Union soldiers who are discharged this day. Moore’s release from the army takes place in Pulaski, Tennessee, far from his home. A painter, Moore enrolled in the U.S. Army on March 27, 1862, becoming a part of Company G, 1st Illinois Cavalry. Upon completion…
At the “Old Temperance Hall” on South Main Street in Pinckneyville, Illinois, a new Baptist church is formed this day. Nine persons, four men and five women, are the founding members of the First Baptist Church of Pinckneyville. Like many churches formed immediately after the war, progress is slow. The congregation meets in the Temperance…
Missourian Franklin (“Frank”) James (brother to Jesse James) is the son of a now-deceased Baptist minister (Robert James, who assisted in the formation of William Jewel College) and a Sunday School teacher in his Baptist church. Enrolling in the Confederate Army early in the war, Frank soon returned home. When Union soldiers raided the family…