Southern Baptist efforts to supply religious reading material to Confederate soldiers are now well underway. George J. Sumner, Treasurer of the Baptist Colportage Board, is now living in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate Capital. This month he reports that the board has received $3,500 to assist in providing religious reading material to the Confederate Army in…
In the West today, Union soldiers fight against African slavery even as American politicians force yet another treaty upon Native Americans designed to marginalize Indians. In Missouri, the minor Battle of Dry Wood Creek (also known as the Battle of the Mules) results in Confederate victory. U.S. Col. J.H. Lane, leading some 600 calvary, is…
Archibald Harrison Holland of Georgia, who turned 17 three weeks ago, today attends an enlistment rally for the Confederate Army—a turning point for him and a juncture of anguish for his mother who refuses to let her oldest son go gently into the war environs. “He became so enthused on this occasion that he immediately…