The armies of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Union Gen. George G. Meade have been moving closer and closer to one another in the past week. Today, they collide west of Gettysburg, a town where several highways intersect. The initial contact between Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and Meade’s Army of the Potomac takes…
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s invasion of Pennsylvania today meets resistance in the town of Hanover. The encounter begins when Confederate Major Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry attacks a Union cavalry regiment and forces the federal forces to retreat through the streets of Hanover. The Confederate retreat, however, proves to be momentary. A brigade arrives to…
Traveling with Henry Ward Beecher in England in June, Rochester Theological Seminary Baptist educator and abolitionist John H. Raymond joins Beecher in making stirring anti-slavery speeches in Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, and London, in an effort to prevent England from siding with the Confederacy. While Beecher is the main draw, Raymond also delivers speeches. Later,…