Today, Sunday, the 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry seeks a suitable place on the upper North Carolina coast to construct a battery. The effort is part of larger campaign by Confederate forces to hurriedly secure their coastlines in the face of a superior Union Navy. Alva Spencer, a Mercer University graduate, records a rather humorous…
Today a medical doctor, Henry Palmer, joins the newly-mustered 7th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry. An active laymen in the Janesville Baptist Church, Palmer’s career to date has taken him to the top of the world – literally. Born in New Hartford, New York, in 1827, Palmer as a youngster worked on his father’s farm. From his…
The Long Run Baptist Association of Kentucky meets today. The war is upon the minds of the Baptists gathered. Kentucky Baptist historian John H. Spencer, born in 1826 and now at the prime of his preaching career, recalls the meeting: On the 6th of that month [September, 1861] I went to the meeting of Long…