Many in the Confederacy have reacted quite negatively to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. The policy provides a way for Confederate citizens to pledge loyalty to the United States and thus receive a pardon, while also setting in place a plan to, over time, re-incorporate into the United States those…
Jacob M. C Breaker (1824-1894), born in South Carolina, is a leader among the state’s Southern Baptists. Like most prominent Southern Baptists, he is a member of a wealthy slave-owning family. In Jacob’s childhood years his father, Lewis Frederick Breaker–a wealthy merchant and plantation owner and a deacon at First Baptist Camden, South Carolina–moved the…
The Confederate Army of the Tennessee, defeated twice by their Union counterparts outside of Chattanooga in the past two days, is desperate to turn the tide of the Chattanooga Campaign. Confederate General Braxton Bragg, however, is unable to halt the offensive maneuvers of Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Today’s action plays out on Missionary Ridge…