The Battle of Cold Harbor, now full-fledged trench warfare, continues in Virginia near Richmond. Battle clashes have been replaced with occasional shots from sharpshooters and the whine and explosion of lobbed artillery shells. Heat, dust and a lack of water, food and medical care in the trenches bodes ill for the soldiers in this new…
In the face of a grinding, drawn-out war in which the North by now has the decided upper hand, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, having been a Baptist in his youth, today composes a letter to three prominent northern Baptists – George B. Ide, James R. Doolittle, and A. Hubbell – offering further reflection on the…
Today Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee clash yet again as Union forces continue maneuvering in an effort to outflank Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and advance upon Richmond. Today’s action takes places less than 20 miles from the Confederate capital in the Battle of Totopotomoy Creek, also known as…