In a reminder that many Baptists of the South are just as pro-war as other southerners, an announcement in this week’s Memphis Daily Appeal makes note of a new weapon of war invented by an enterprising Baptist minster: The Rev. Mr. Graves, a well known elder of the Baptist church, yesterday showed us a new…
Nashville, Tennessee’s second largest city (behind Memphis) and militarily exposed in the wake of the United States’ capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, has been vacated of Confederate soldiers in anticipation of the arrival of Union forces. The retreating Confederates burned down the city’s bridges, and some residents joined in the evacuation. One of…
Jefferson Davis is again inaugurated as the president of the Confederacy. This inauguration, held in the Confederate capital of Richmond, is the first in the fully-formed Confederate States of America. Upon his inauguration, Davis is installed as president for six years. In the ceremony, the Confederate president uses a Bible given to him by a…