The Confederate Congress and Confederate President Jefferson Davis issue a call for 100,000 volunteer soldiers to serve for twelve months. Yet uncertainty surrounds the fate of Deep South states not yet committed to the southern cause; Union sentiment remains strong in Tennessee and North Carolina. In the Upper South, Virginia is tipping toward secession. Meanwhile,…
A flurry of activity takes place this first day of March, three days prior to Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. Texas officially becomes the seventh state to join the Confederate States of America, Confederate president Jefferson Davis appoints General P. G. T. Beauregard as Brigadier General and orders him to Charleston, and the United States Congress rejects…
Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes United States President-elect (and former Baptist) Abraham Lincoln, introducing lawyer and Georgia Baptist layman Martin J. Crawford (illustration) as Confederate Commissioner to the United States: The President of the United States: Being animated by an earnest desire to unite and bind together our respective countries by friendly ties, I have…