Today the owner of Ford’s Theater, the former site of the First Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and the place where former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, agrees to lease the building to the War Department. In reality, the theater has been under the control of the U.S. government since the assassination. Military guards…
Today is Good Friday. On the site of where the war between the states erupted, the former United States flag, the very one that had been removed by the Confederacy on April 12, 1861, is again raised over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in a special ceremony attended by many dignitaries. General Abner Doubleday, raised…
The editors of the Richmond Daily Dispatch today reprint a patriotic story from Charleston that recently took place in a Baptist church: The Charleston Mercury, reporting the proceedings of the Baptist Association of that city, says: A pleasant incident occurred, which it may be interesting to relate. In the collection taken up at the Baptist…