Thomas Carleton Cheney (1831-1900) is a native of New Hampshire and a member of the First Free Baptist Church of Manchester, New Hampshire. At the age of 28, Cheney enlisted in 1861 as a private in the First New Hampshire Voluntary Light Battery. During the war, the Baptist layman has fought in almost every major…
Winter is setting in following decisive summer Union victories at Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) and Vicksburg (Mississippi) and a series of major victories in Tennessee during the autumn months. While far from settled, momentum now resides with the United States as armies North and South settle into winter camps. On the home front, Kentuckians remain caught between…
In churches throughout both nations, soldier wives worship and wonder–wonder if their husbands will one day return safely. Outside, the weather is cold, warning all of impending winter. Philadelphia is “very cold and dreary,” relates Emilie Davis, an African-American young woman who today attends church services. Her concerns are for the many blacks for whom…