As the first light of dawn pierces the morning sky, Confederate troops stationed atop Marye’s Heights and behind a stone wall along a sunken road at the base of the hill peer anxiously towards Fredericksburg. The previous day the Federal Army of the Potomac had launched several massive, but unsuccessful, assaults across several hundred yards…
Delayed for nearly a month, Union Commander Ambrose Burnside finally launches his plan to cross the Rappahannock River, drive the Confederates from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and proceed south to Richmond. The first step of his plan requires the army engineers to construct pontoon bridges because the river is too wide and too deep to ford. In…
An editorial in today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder speaks of the duty of home front Southern Baptists to their brave Confederate soldiers, tugging at the heart strings of readers. Those who have visited the army or labored in the hospitals know that there is one object which is ever present to the mind of…