As spring hovers on the horizon, this week the Union begins an offensive expedition up the Red River and targeted at Shreveport, Louisiana, the headquarters of Confederate Gen. E. Kirby Smith’s Trans-Mississippi Department. Union Army Maj. General Nathaniel P. Banks and Union Navy Rear Admiral David D. Porter jointly command the combined force. The federals…
This week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a recent letter from a soldier in the 22nd North Carolina Regiment. Letters from soldiers are eagerly read by home front families who constantly search for news in the camps and from the battlefields. Baptist soldiers’ interpretations of the war, including the religious aspects of army life,…
Now blanketed by the chill of winter, anxiety courses through the veins of the Confederacy in the wake of many months of military setbacks. Government officials hope that the coming spring months will witness a curtailing of army desertions. Perhaps the revivals taking place in army camps will steel the South’s defenders to once again…