Today the Long Run Baptist Association of Kentucky meets, an association that includes the city of Louisville, located across the Ohio River from the Union state of Indiana. Kentucky is a border state now solidly under Union control. News summaries from individual churches largely focus on internal matters, and are reported as follows: Elk Creek.…
Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is delighted to learn of the capture of Vicksburg. The good news is tempered, however, when later in the day he is informed that Union Gen. George G. Meade has failed to aggressively pursue the retreating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. News of the…
Thomas E. Bramlette (1817-1875) is a Baptist layman, lawyer and state politician in this home state of Kentucky. Like many Kentuckians, he is a Union man. Earlier in the war he was commissioned as a colonel and raised the Third Kentucky Infantry Regiment. Bramlette has recently resigned his military position and today he becomes the…