Minor skirmishes continue to mark the month of April, such as today’s Battle of Salyersville. The Kentucky town, like many in that state and in Magoffin County in particular, is by now used to the tug-of-war between Union and Confederate forces. The town’s citizenry is comprised, to a significant degree, of former Virginians. Not particularly…
Fifteen miles north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Confederate forces from Texas strike a Union supply area at Milliken’s Bend in an attempt to loosen U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant‘s siege of Vicksburg. The supply depots and hospitals at Milliken’s Bend are guarded by black soldiers, many of whom were until recently enslaved men. Armed with inferior…
North Carolina Baptists this week read of the work of Baptist pastor B. F. Jessup, who is ministering to wounded and sick Confederate soldiers in the Confederate hospital in Wilmington, the city which had experienced a devastating outbreak of yellow fever the previous fall. I am often affected to tears in my morning rounds (through…