Today U.S. Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell leaves Washington with 35,000 troops, his departure marked by a cheering crowd. The size of McDowell’s army is the largest ever assembled in North America. Northern civilians are anxious that the Union army engage Confederate forces. Heading west, McDowell’s goal is to push Confederate forces from Manassas Junction and…
On this Sunday Julia Stanford, a member of First Baptist Church Forsyth, Georgia discusses church and Thatcher’s Comet: “Went to Sabbath school carried in all the books due. Stayed to Church – As usual, and as usual have forgotten the text … The new comet looks magnificent. Friday there was a magnificent meteor large as…
Robert Benjamin Headden (born 1838 in Cassville, Georgia into an Old Line English Baptist family), of Bartow County, Georgia, enlists with Philip’s Legion today. His first major action is in 1862 in the Seven Days Battle and the 2nd Battle of Manassas, at which he is wounded. Recovering, Headden fights in the battle of Fredericksburg…