U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, following a series of Union battlefield victories over the past six months, senses momentum on the side of the United States in the war against the rebellious Southern states. The Union now controls much of the South, and some states are ready for their governments to be rebuilt. In addition, the…
A large crowd assembles in the Masonic Hall in Savannah, Georgia to hear the reading of an essay written by local hero and popular orator George Anderson Gordon, a colonel in the 63rd Georgia Regiment. Gordon’s regiment is charged with defending the Georgia and South Carolina coasts, whose waterways are now largely blockaded by the…
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…