U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s plan to resupply Fort Sumter is in motion, but the Confederacy has served notice that it will not allow the plan to proceed. The time has come. Confederate General Beauregard sends three aides – Colonel James Chesnut, Jr., Captain Stephen D. Lee, and Lieutenant A. R. Chisolm – to demand the…
Georgia’s Baptist governor, Joseph Brown (illustration), continues to systemically take over federal lands and buildings in his state. Today, he orders the state militia to take possession of the United States Mint in Dahlonega. The north Georgia mountain town is the place were gold was first discovered in America. Also today, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln,…
As expected, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of Confederate forces in Charleston, South Carolina, orders that transports not be allowed to resupply nearby Fort Sumter. Thus, United States supply ships en route to Sumter will be prevented from approaching the fort. War talk is thick among Baptists of Charleston and throughout the South. Most believe…