Confederate General Robert E. Lee seeks to bolster his army both in terms of manpower and firearms. Today he writes Georgia governor Joseph E. Brown (image), noting that many Georgia volunteer companies are arriving in Virginia without weapons. Lee requests weapons from Brown, having already made similar requests from politicians of other states. A Baptist…
Weeks before the first major battle of the Civil War, a tragic event takes the life of a Virginia Baptist soldier. The Richmond Times Dispatch thus reports this week: Our citizens were astounded … as if by a peal of thunder from a clear sky, by the intelligence of the death of Captain C. F.…
Upon graduating from Richmond College, John Walker Hundley joins the 26th Virginia Infantry as a second lieutenant, under the command of his uncle, Capt. Napoleon B. Street. A King and Queen County, Virginia native born in 1841, Hundley had a difficult childhood, his mother dying two years after his birth. College had opened a world…