Baptists and the American Civil War: January 19, 1863
Defeated and humiliated at the Battle of Fredericksburg last month, Union General Ambrose Burnside now seeks revenge. Today he begins a military march that becomes known as the “Mud March.” In Jan. 1863, after the Federal defeat at the First Battle of Fredericksburg on 13 Dec., Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside sought to restore the…