The fall of Savannah continues to ripple throughout the North and South. News of the event reaches the West coast this week, whereupon this day a group of citizens in Los Angeles assembles to organize a Soldier’s Aid Society to assist injured Union soldiers. Additional chapters are formed on both coasts in the weeks following,…
Today in the United States elections are held for several governorships as well as the U.S. House and one-third of the Senate. Southern politicians in Richmond hope that peace candidates will make gains, but their hopes are to no avail as Republicans increase their strength in statehouses and in Washington. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s chances…
White residents of the Confederate States of America have nothing to celebrate this Fourth of July. Their freedom to enslave blacks is in danger of being taken away by a relentless Northern abolitionist army, a prospect that would collapse the economic, social and cultural foundations of the South. An editorial in this week’s North Carolina…