With the coming of winter and in the wake of months of battlefield losses and home front economic hardships, despair has descended upon the Confederate States of America. Is there any hope of winning the terrible war waged against the abolitionist North? A brief commentary in the Georgia Baptist Christian Index , entitled “The Delusive…
Confederate Gen. James Longstreet‘s campaign to retake Knoxville, Tennessee from occupying Union forces has been underway since November 16, to no avail. Having given up on his siege efforts, Longstreet on December 4 had left the Knoxville area and headed northeast, pursued by Union forces. Today the Knoxville Campaign comes to an end when Longstreet…
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…