In Virginia’s eastern panhandle Freewill Baptists, under the leadership of Rev. Nathan Cook Brackett, lead the way in helping establish Freedmen’s schools. A native of Maine and in the closing months an assistant field agent with the United States Christian Commission in Winchester, Virginia, Brackett following the conclusion of the war suggested that Freewill Baptists…
The Confederacy continues winding down. This month the one remaining Confederate medical laboratory, located in Columbia, South Carolina, shutters its doors. There is not much left in the largely empty building when the keys are handed over to a Union officer in the city. While the remaining vestiges of Confederate government properties are turned over…
While men typically occupy the front lines of Civil War narratives, war-time hospitals created space for women to play significant roles. Millions of soldiers were injured during the war, with hundreds of thousands requiring hospitalization to various degrees. The sudden necessity of large volumes of nurses to work in the hundreds of temporary war-era hospitals…