Unbeknownst to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a photograph of him taken this day on the balcony of the White House will prove to be his last. Soon, he will succumb to an assassin’s bullet. Far away in Florida, also this day, Confederate forces triumph in what will prove to be one of the South’s last…
Today Liberty Baptist Church in Wilkinson County, Ga, gathers for a monthly business meeting. The third item on the agenda is a request from Richard L. Lavender “to take him under the watch care of the church until he returns from the war and wright (sic) to him on the subject.” Presumably church clerk Wiley…
Isaac Gray Woolsey–physician, surgeon, and Baptist layman–has been serving as a quartermaster in the Confederate Army. Today, he resigns that position and begins organizing Company C, Eighth Tennessee Confederate cavalry. The regiment is soon assigned to Gen. N.B. Forrest’s division. As his obituary recounts: With his command he participated in all the battles in which…