Texas Baptists meet this month for their annual convention, collecting funds for army missions and destitute home front families and hearing reports of yet-growing educational institutions. The Texas Baptist State Convention met at Independence, on Saturday before the fourth Sunday in October. A delegation nearly twice as large as that of last year was present. …
Memphis has now been under Union control for over a year, the city serving as a strategic point on the Mississippi for the United States Army. From the beginning of the war Tennessee was a divided state, and the occupation of Memphis is welcomed by many residents of Union sentiment. This week the one remaining…
Death is an ever present force during the war, a low-hanging cloud that follows armies in camp and on the battlefield. For some on the battlefield, the end of life on earth arrives suddenly in the form of lead or cannonball. For others, weapons of war bite rather than devour, a sting that signals inevitability…