Confederate reinforcements are pouring into Fredericksburg, Virginia, positioning themselves across the Rappahannock River from Union forces in Falmouth. The city has largely been deserted by civilians. Anticipation hangs thick in the air, as a clash between the two forces is only a matter of time. Today, according to one eyewitness account (although disputed by some…
This week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index publishes a letter from Southern Baptist Army Chaplain D. G. Daniell, who writes from Camp Causton Bluff near Savannah. ….I may mention the interest which the men manifest in religious newspapers, some thirty copies of which are circulated among them weekly, with the injunction to read and pass them…
Caroline Cowles Richards, a young lady living in Canadaigua, New York, has been maintaining a diary for ten years. Today she makes note of a significant day in the life of the First Baptist Church of her village: … went to the Baptist Church this evening to hear Rev. A. H. Lung preach his last…