To the West, Missouri remains a hotly contested state. While the state remains within the Union, many Missourians serve in the Confederate army. In some instances Missouri families are divided in sentiments, and brother fights against brother. Such is the case with Alexander and James Moore of Farmington. Today Alexander, age nineteen, enlists with the…
On farms and plantations North and South, early morning chores are underway when Union artillery fire at 5:15 a.m. breaks the silence of dawn at Manassas Junction, Virginia on this Sabbath day. The Battle of Manassas (so-named in the South) or Bull Run (in the North) has begun. U.S. Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell’s Union forces…
In northern Virginia Brig. Gen. Joe Johnston’s Confederate Army and Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell’s Union Army jockey for position as they prepare for battle. On both sides are Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, Jews … and Baptists. The men of faith within the armies, as the others, carry weapons and are ready to kill the enemy…