Today the Confederates score another notable victory in a minor battle. Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his cavalry, utilizing guerrilla tactics, have already scored a number of prior victories. Today they strike again, this time at Brice’s Cross Roads in hotly-contested Mississippi. Again reflecting his strategical brilliance, Forrest defeats a much larger force…
Each week during the war, editors of (white) Southern Baptist newspapers offer a potpourri of short pieces that collectively reveal their perspectives of the great conflict. By and large, these gatekeepers of denominational news are ardent supporters of the Confederacy, albeit the nuances of their shared nationalism (like that of the white South at large)…
Today in Prince William County, Virginia, the Third Corps of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia attack the Second Corps of Union Gen. George E. Meade‘s Army of the Potomac. The Battle of Bristoe Station begins with a surprise attack upon the unsuspecting federals: the initial shells fall as the federals are…