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…
Rev. F. N. Barlow (born 1818), pastor of the Baptist Church in Halfmoon, New York, today enlists as a First Lieutenant in Co H 115th New York Infantry. Known as the “Iron Hearted Regiment,” the 115th New York is organized August 26, 1862 at Fonda, New York, mustering out on June 17, 1865. In the…
Julia Stanford, teacher at the Forsyth Female College and member of First Baptist Church of Forsyth, again chronicles her thoughts in her diary. She includes rumors of war for which there is no basis of truth, a commonplace occurrence in towns far removed from battlefronts. This morning – Like most School day mornings, has nothing…