Today aboard the USS Lizzie Davis Union Brigadier General Alexander Asboth begins transporting some 700 men and horses across Florida’s Pensacola Bay to Navy Cove, the beginnings of a two week long raid in Florida that is designed to inflict great military and economic harm upon portions of Florida controlled by the Confederacy. By the…
While slaveholders, politicians, civil servants, religious leaders and newspaper editors in the Confederacy lament over the losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg and try to sort out the meanings and repercussions thereof, many ordinary Southerners do the same. Mary Beckley Bristow is one of those ordinary Southerners. She is a member of the Sardis Baptist Church…
Today, Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky, reflects upon the recent Confederate victory at the first battle of Manassas / Bull Run, fought three days prior: A great battle has been fought in old Virginia between the North, East & West against the South, who is battling alone…