Winter is setting in following decisive summer Union victories at Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) and Vicksburg (Mississippi) and a series of major victories in Tennessee during the autumn months. While far from settled, momentum now resides with the United States as armies North and South settle into winter camps. On the home front, Kentuckians remain caught between…
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…
During the gloominess that hangs over a despondent Confederacy, many white southerners cling to the hope that the past can yet be restored into a glorious future. Samuel Boykin, editor of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index and since prior to the war a dreamer of a glorious future for the Confederate nation, obliges the persistent…