Today is Good Friday. On the site of where the war between the states erupted, the former United States flag, the very one that had been removed by the Confederacy on April 12, 1861, is again raised over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in a special ceremony attended by many dignitaries. General Abner Doubleday, raised…
Two days after Lee’s surrender, celebrations continue in the nation’s capital. The crowd of people gathered on the grounds of the capitol are cheerful and loud, rejoicing in the end of the great conflict that has left perhaps 700,000 dead. Not that the war has officially ended quite yet. Although Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia…
This is a Christmas day unlike any other. The image of the modern, portly Santa Claus as drawn by Thomas Nast is less than two years old. Baptists do not yet celebrate Christmas in a religious sense, as the holiday is considered popish and paganish. Nor is the day celebrated publicly en masse. For some…