Atlanta is not the only thing on Union General William T. Sherman‘s mind. While capturing the strategic city is his uppermost objective, Sherman’s thoughts also drift further southward. In particular, the general is troubled at the reports he is hearing out of Andersonville Prison, an open air prison camp in southwest Georgia housing nearly 30,000…
Today Frederic Bates of Pennsylvania writes a letter to U. S. President Abraham Lincoln: Titusville Pa Nov 10/63 Dear Sir On the 23d of July last I left Macon Geo. with my wife & child for Vermont My Native State Had been a resident of the South eight years. While travelling from Macon to Atlanta…
The editors of the Richmond Daily Dispatch today reprint a patriotic story from Charleston that recently took place in a Baptist church: The Charleston Mercury, reporting the proceedings of the Baptist Association of that city, says: A pleasant incident occurred, which it may be interesting to relate. In the collection taken up at the Baptist…