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…
Confederate citizens and soldiers watch in dismay as a Union naval squadron, led by Flag-Officer David G. Farragut, today sails up the mouth of the Mississippi past forts Jackson and St. Philip. The fall of New Orleans is inevitable; surrender takes place on April 28. Union occupancy of the Confederacy’s largest city begins May 1,…
The Confederate Congress has been meeting all week. Richmond’s First Baptist pastor, J. Lansing Burrows, is a fixture, offering the opening prayer of many of the congressional sessions. Meanwhile, from across the Atlantic Ocean, today’s edition of The Illustrated London Daily News offers commentary on the distant conflict. The important news has been received that…