Union General Ulysses S. Grant, now in command of all Union armies, plots strategy for the coming spring and summer campaigns. Today in Cincinnati Grant wraps up a planning session with General William Tecumseh Sherman in which they discuss putting all federal armies into play simultaneously, engaging the rebels on all major fronts in an…
The Southern Baptist Convention is now in its third day of meetings. The battlefields are distant, but as in the previous two days, the war remains uppermost on the minds of the Southern Baptist divines who today, a Sunday, fill pulpits throughout the city of Augusta. Unbeknownst to these Baptists, Confederate hero Gen. Thomas “Stonewall”…
During this second day of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia again outflanks and outfights Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker‘s Army of the Potomac, a force twice the size of Lee’s. Yet this otherwise victorious day for the South ends badly when Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, daring military…