Since July, the Union Army has been operating under President Abraham Lincoln‘s order to execute one Confederate soldier for every Federal soldier killed in violation of the laws of war. Lincoln’s order had been issued due to frequency and violence of Confederate guerrilla activity during the second half of the war, corresponding to the dimming…
Confederate guerrillas led by “Bloody” Bill Anderson and including Jesse and Frank James, both Baptists, this evening raid Danville, Missouri, a Union-friendly town. Many citizens, recognizing the invasion, flee for the woods, escaping the carnage. Not all are so lucky as the guerrillas set fire to the town, shooting citizens who dare show themselves. Some…
Trickery is ever afoot in the border states as Confederate and Union partisans vie for control of disputed territory. One of many Baptist families caught up in the conflict on a local level is the Smith family. Obediah, a native Kentuckian, is a Baptist pastor of the Missionary Baptist persuasion. A pioneering family of Missouri,…