In Richmond this day, the white ministers of the city meet at the First Baptist Church to discuss arrangements for opening with prayer the daily sessions of the Virginia legislature: “The Clergy of Richmond having been, by resolution of the House of Delegates, invited, “by arrangement and concert among themselves, to open the daily sessions…
Mere days after the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution eradicating slavery throughout the nation, white citizens of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Old Confederacy, remain defiant in defending white supremacy and black subservience. In many homes, however, fathers are absent, having lost their lives during the war. Thus the…
As Union General Ulysses S. Grant makes ready his imminent spring campaign against the Confederate capital of Richmond, the Southern nation observes a day of fasting and prayer, as instructed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Of the many such days proclaimed by Davis during the war, today’s observances are probably the most widely observed, due…