The Southern coastline is a weak link in the Confederacy. Their ports cut off by Union blockades, and many key coastal land areas now under the control of the United States Army, the Confederate States is largely isolated from its own coastline. Furthermore, the Northern military presence in the region is leading to ever-growing numbers…
Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index today publishes a letter from a Georgia Baptist army missionary stationed at “Camp Brown (near Savannah).” The camp in question may have been south of Savannah and north of St. Simons Island. The Confederate’s Fort Brown at St. Simon’s Island, about sixty miles south of Savannah, weeks earlier was abandoned when…
While further north winter weather precludes new battles, the struggle for control of the southern Atlantic coastline continues. Union forces, having successfully seized control of shipping lanes and key islands off the South Carolina coast earlier this month, today, under the direction of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, seize control of Tybee Island off the…