And so it begins. At 4:30 AM, Confederate batteries open fire on Fort Sumter off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. Sumter’s Union garrison returns fire. In the space of mere moments, month-longs apprehension evaporates. The war is on. There is no turning back. The first return fire from Sumter comes from a cannon manned…
As expected, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of Confederate forces in Charleston, South Carolina, orders that transports not be allowed to resupply nearby Fort Sumter. Thus, United States supply ships en route to Sumter will be prevented from approaching the fort. War talk is thick among Baptists of Charleston and throughout the South. Most believe…
An editorial in today’s Charleston Mercury is read with approval by many white Baptists in the South Carolina city: … we have already noticed the gross ignorance of the people of the North in regard to the true principles of republican government. Having no adequate conception of those wise and needful restrictions upon absolute power,…