In the South, Confederate notes (paper money) increasingly succumb to inflationary pressures. As the war stretches out, the printing volume of notes grows, while citizens become more uncertain as to whether they will ever be able to redeem the notes (which are to be redeemed following Confederate victory over the United States). Currently, Confederate notes…
Today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index offers a spirited defense of African slavery while arguing that slaves should at least be allowed to read the Bible, a practice long illegal in some Confederate states. As such, some white Baptists position themselves against a view popular among white Confederates at large that by learning to read, slaves…
Today a new chapter in the war begins: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia begin their first invasion of Northern territory. The timing of the offensive is not coincidental. The Union’s Army of the Potomac is reeling from a rebuffed attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. U.S. President…