Colonel William S. Christian, a physician and Baptist layman now commanding the 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment of of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia that is invading Northern soil, today writes to his wife of their advance northward. Camp near Greenwood, Pa., June 28, 1863 My own darling Wife : I have…
The tension mounts in the North as U.S. General Robert E. Lee remains largely unopposed in his invasive foray. In the South, hopes are high that the invasion might be the turning point of the war that forces the United States to seek peace with the Confederacy. Today York, Pennsylvania is the focus of the…
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, in the midst of invading the North with his Army of Northern Virginia, today confers with Gen. A. P. Hill on the town square of Chambersburg, Virginia. The U.S. government and army seem hapless to stop the invasion. Meanwhile, Confederate naval vessels are raiding far northward. Having captured a Maine…