The momentum now seems to be on the Confederacy’s side, but Union armies remain in northern Virginia.Today, the two sides clash in a major battle on familiar ground that becomes known as the Second Battle of Bull Run (and the Second Battle of Manassas). As had been the case in the First Battle of Bull…
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…
Perry Lee Hickox, born in 1840 in Wayne County, Georgia, is from a large Baptist family in south Georgia, one of twenty-one children, fifteen of whom survive infancy. Perry’s father, David, is from Connecticut. He moved South upon obtaining a land grant in south Georgia, and married Sarah Altman of Wayne County (this was David’s…