White residents of the Confederate States of America have nothing to celebrate this Fourth of July. Their freedom to enslave blacks is in danger of being taken away by a relentless Northern abolitionist army, a prospect that would collapse the economic, social and cultural foundations of the South. An editorial in this week’s North Carolina…
A new Senate bill for reconstructing the South passes the House and Senate today, its origins hearkening back to a February 1863 plan proposed by U.S. Senator from New York, and prominent Baptist layman, Ira Harris. The plan as passed is based on presupposition that the Southern states would need to “re-join” the Union in…
In Virginia, Union cavalry raiders continue their retreat to safety following several weeks of partially successful attempts to disrupt Confederate rail lines. Today they are surprised yet again by an unexpected encounter with a contingent of Confederate forces in what becomes known as the First Battle of Ream’s Station. Outnumbered about 7,000 to 4,000, Federal…