The Imitation Free Will Baptist Church was founded in Pitts County, North Carolina in 1831. By 1845 the church had twenty-four members and was holding worship services the first Sunday of each month (the monthly meetings being typical for rural Baptist churches in the South). As is the case with many churches throughout the South,…
Today in the hotly-contested border state of Kentucky, a Confederate cavalry force led by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, captures Paducah, Kentucky with little resistance. The raid is an effort to capture Union supplies; Paducah is a considerable prize. Meanwhile, the Union garrison, having retreated upon learning of the rebels’ approach, is garrisoned in the…
Union General Ulysses S. Grant, now in command of all Union armies, plots strategy for the coming spring and summer campaigns. Today in Cincinnati Grant wraps up a planning session with General William Tecumseh Sherman in which they discuss putting all federal armies into play simultaneously, engaging the rebels on all major fronts in an…