In Minonk, Illinois, the Minonk Baptist Church, a mere six years old, today dedicates the congregation’s first meeting house. Meanwhile, the First Baptist Church of Webster, Massachusetts celebrates this day the 50th anniversary of their congregation with a “historical discourse.” Far southward in Union-controlled Knoxville, Tennessee, the First Baptist Church meeting house, established 1843, has…
Kennesaw Mountain is the focus of this week’s developments in the Atlanta Campaign. Confederate General Joseph Johnston and Union General William T. Sherman jockey for position, each striving to surround the other’s forces, with neither gaining the decisive upper hand. One of the many officers involved in this day’s maneuvers and skirmishes is Union Captain…
Peter Barrow was born a slave near Petersburg, Virginia in 1840. As a child he was taken to a plantation in Alabama. Earlier this year, perhaps when Union naval and army forces invaded and gained control over the Mobile Bay area in February, Barrow, now a young man, managed to escape. Fleeing to Vicksburg, this…