Seven people join the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church of Choctaw County, Alabama. All are from one family, and their entry into church membership is a microcosm of the reasons underlying the warfare between South and North. The family is the Bloxom family. Three white members join Mount Pisgah today: Albert Bloxom, wife Amanda, and sister…
To the West, Missouri remains a hotly contested state. While the state remains within the Union, many Missourians serve in the Confederate army. In some instances Missouri families are divided in sentiments, and brother fights against brother. Such is the case with Alexander and James Moore of Farmington. Today Alexander, age nineteen, enlists with the…
On farms and plantations North and South, early morning chores are underway when Union artillery fire at 5:15 a.m. breaks the silence of dawn at Manassas Junction, Virginia on this Sabbath day. The Battle of Manassas (so-named in the South) or Bull Run (in the North) has begun. U.S. Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell’s Union forces…