Stationed at Portsmouth, Virginia with Company C of the 3rd Georgia Regiment, Private Alva B. Spencer, a recent graduate of Georgia Baptists’ Mercer University, writes to his friend, “Maggie” (Margaret Lucinda Cone), expressing his feelings of Confederate patriotism: Many, very many, precious souls have been launched before God’s throne since the commencement of the…
Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declares the 11 states of the Confederacy and southerners “in a state of insurrection against the United States.” Lincoln also deems all commercial trade to states outside the Confederacy as “unlawful” as long as the insurrection continues. Thus, the thriving cotton trade between the South and Border states is severely…
Although little battlefield action takes place this month, public emotions are running high North and South while military leaders acquire equipment and plot strategy. The Connecticut Hartford Daily Courant runs a synopsis of a story from New York’s Auburn Advertiser concerning an incident in Georgia: The Auburn Advertiser states that a man named Dunning, who…