Today the informal emancipation of southern slaves begins, in the form of the United States’ Act to Confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes. While not mentioning slavery specifically, the Act approved by the President and passed by the Congress gives Union armies the power to confiscate the property of southerners – including slaves, the most…
James Burrell Jones’ second son is born tonight, the day before eighteen-year old Jones marches off to war, leaving his teenage wife to raise two children and tend their south Georgia farm. She “did all the farming, plowed, hoed and everything that has to be done on a farm. She also spun and weaved…
Today, Sunday, is a national Confederate Day of Thanksgiving, as proclaimed by the Confederate Congress on July 22, the day after the great victory at Bull Run / Manassas. The Congress has asked churches throughout the land to devote the day to thanking God and asking for God’s continued blessing upon his chosen nation: Resolved,…