The Confederate Congress and Confederate President Jefferson Davis issue a call for 100,000 volunteer soldiers to serve for twelve months. Yet uncertainty surrounds the fate of Deep South states not yet committed to the southern cause; Union sentiment remains strong in Tennessee and North Carolina. In the Upper South, Virginia is tipping toward secession. Meanwhile,…
A mere twenty-four hours after Abraham Lincoln takes the U. S. presidential oath, the Confederate States of America, disdainful of the “black” U. S. president (as they call Lincoln), unveils the “Stars and Bars,” the first Confederate flag, while Texas formally accepts Confederate statehood. White Baptist reaction in the South is mixed. While Basil Manly,…
A flurry of activity takes place this first day of March, three days prior to Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. Texas officially becomes the seventh state to join the Confederate States of America, Confederate president Jefferson Davis appoints General P. G. T. Beauregard as Brigadier General and orders him to Charleston, and the United States Congress rejects…