New York Senator Ira Harris (1802-1875), close political friend of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln, is one the nation’s most prominent Baptists. His name also graces New York’s 2nd Regiment Calvary, known as the “Harris Light Calvary.” Today William O. Stoddard, White House assistant and columnist for the New York Examiner, speaks of Harris in…
Eight months into the war, as the year draws to a close, southerners are concerned about the economic prospects of the Confederacy, now isolated from the manufacturing muscle of the North. Slavery remains the economic underpinning of the South, but the region’s reliance on cotton, enabled by slave labor, is now suffering from an inability…
At Camp Jenkins, Kentucky, the company commanders of the 24th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry assemble at 3:00 PM at the Adjutant’s quarters. The purpose of this meeting is to select a regimental chaplain. Organized on June 17, the regiment consists of recruits from Adams, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga, Erie, Highland, Huron, Montgomery, Muskingum, Pickaway, and Trumbull…