While the main military action is now taking place in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia (none favoring the Confederacy), small skirmishes take place elsewhere. One such engagement happens this day at the Concord Baptist Church in Yazoo County, Mississippi. In the brief encounter, Confederate forces from Arkansas and the Union’s Second Wisconsin Calvary clash, with the…
As Sherman overruns Georgia and Lee is pinned down in Virginia, the Confederacy has placed great military hopes in General John Bell Hood‘s invasion of Tennessee. Hope, however, far distant from reality in the rapidly-sinking Confederacy, is not to be found in Tennessee as the Federals defeat the Rebels yet again, this time in the…
Today the most prominent Baptist in Georgia is effectively in exile as Milledgeville, the state capital, is firmly under the control of the Union Army. Governor Joseph Brown, a member of the First Baptist Church of Milledgeville, fled upon the arrival of the Federals on November 23. Traveling southward, he now finds refuge in his…