Union forces on the Red River, having captured Louisiana’s Fort DeRussy, continue their campaign to expand their presence in Louisiana. Meanwhile, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest initiates a cavalry raid into West Tennessee and Kentucky. The goal is to put Union forces on the offensive during the open days of the spring campaign season. On…
Baptist layman Thomas C. Cheney is a soldier in the First New Hampshire Voluntary Light Battery and a member of the First Free Baptist Church of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1861 a 28-year old Cheney enlisted as a private in the Battery. He fights in most of the major battles during the war years, including…
The military inactivity of winter months provides soldiers with ample opportunities to play cards, read, forage and, for many, write letters to family and friends on the home front. Thomas C. Cheney, a Union soldier in the First New Hampshire Voluntary Light Battery and a member of the First Free Baptist Church Manchester, New Hampshire,…