Despite revivals in Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate soldiers camped at Marietta, Georgia seldom hear the Gospel proclaimed. A recent letter from Georgia Baptist army missionary James A. Toole appears in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index. From Marietta, Toole speaks of his work and mentions the lack of preaching…
Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans and his army are penned up in Chattanooga. Confederate Gen. Braxton’s Bragg’s forces control most routes in and out of the city; Union supplies have difficulty reaching Chattanooga. To make matters worse, today Confederate Major Gen. Joseph Wheeler and his men intercept a Union supply train, overpowering the guards. Confederate…
Some war stories are stranger than fiction. Such is the case with the story of 29-year old Robert Franklin Hamilton (1834-1923) from Hendersonville, North Carolina, who today, in Knoxville, Tennessee, enrolls in the 2nd Regiment, North Carolina Mounted Infantry, a Union regiment. Earlier in the war, in 1862 a newly-married Hamilton joined the army of…