Joseph S. Baker, a prominent Southern Baptist minister serving in Thomasville, Georgia, offers his perspective on the state of the Confederacy in a letter printed in the Christian Index: ….We need religious papers more now than ever. The war is not only laying waste our country; it is desolating Zion. From every quarter of the…
Led by U.S. officer Bull Nelson, whose army arrives at Nashville on the Cumberland River via gunboats, Union forces march into and occupy Nashville today. This afternoon, the formal surrender of the city takes place, as Nashville major Richard Cheatham hands the city over to U.S. General Don Carlos Buell. In the days and weeks…
Nashville, Tennessee’s second largest city (behind Memphis) and militarily exposed in the wake of the United States’ capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, has been vacated of Confederate soldiers in anticipation of the arrival of Union forces. The retreating Confederates burned down the city’s bridges, and some residents joined in the evacuation. One of…