The jockeying over Fort Sumter continues. Guarding the entrance to Charleston Harbor, the Fort is critical to the South. Rumors swirl that Union forces will abandon the Fort, but the momentary excitement soon subsides as the news proves baseless. The real question is when and how U. S. President Abraham Lincoln will attempt to send…
Georgia’s Secession Convention continues, reconvening in Savannah (having previously convened in Milledgeville). The following resolution is offered: Whereas, It will become necessary for the Confederate States of America to select a location for a National Capitol. Be it, therefore, Resolved, That the Governor of this State be, and he is hereby authorized to furnish, free…
A mere twenty-four hours after Abraham Lincoln takes the U. S. presidential oath, the Confederate States of America, disdainful of the “black” U. S. president (as they call Lincoln), unveils the “Stars and Bars,” the first Confederate flag, while Texas formally accepts Confederate statehood. White Baptist reaction in the South is mixed. While Basil Manly,…