“These days are fraught with many blessings,” Julia Stanford, a teacher in Forsyth, Georgia comments this week. “Would that we had heart to appreciate them – Truly the lines have fallen in pleasant places. God’s ways are far above our poor ways.” Against the backdrop of distant battlefields and a cloudy, rainy week at home,…
Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declares the 11 states of the Confederacy and southerners “in a state of insurrection against the United States.” Lincoln also deems all commercial trade to states outside the Confederacy as “unlawful” as long as the insurrection continues. Thus, the thriving cotton trade between the South and Border states is severely…
In a tobacco warehouse in Richmond, Virginia, imprisoned Union officers captured at the Battle of Manassas / Bull Run await their fate. Among the prisoners until a few days ago was Abraham Edward Welch of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1st Lieutenant of Company F of the First Minnesota Infantry, son of a former chief justice of the…