Weeks before the first major battle of the Civil War, a tragic event takes the life of a Virginia Baptist soldier. The Richmond Times Dispatch thus reports this week: Our citizens were astounded … as if by a peal of thunder from a clear sky, by the intelligence of the death of Captain C. F.…
Upon graduating from Richmond College, John Walker Hundley joins the 26th Virginia Infantry as a second lieutenant, under the command of his uncle, Capt. Napoleon B. Street. A King and Queen County, Virginia native born in 1841, Hundley had a difficult childhood, his mother dying two years after his birth. College had opened a world…
Today Kentucky declares its neutrality in the Civil War. Kentucky’s decision is a big blow to the Confederacy, ultimately proving important to Union victory four years down the road. The decision, this same day, of North Carolina’s secession convention to withdraw from the Union – the tenth state to do so – does not mitigate…