Today a new chapter in the war begins: Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia begin their first invasion of Northern territory. The timing of the offensive is not coincidental. The Union’s Army of the Potomac is reeling from a rebuffed attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. U.S. President…
In a war fought over southern slavery, the “peculiar institution” is not absent from Union soil. Maryland, a border state, is yet home to many African slaves. At the present, however, Maryland slaveholders are none too happy. Well aware that the war is a referendum on the future of slavery – although officially U.S. President…
Maryland thus far has remained in the Union, and the New York Times declares that the state’s loyalty is now secure. The state’s remaining with the United States is crucial for President Lincoln’s strategy of maintaining the loyalty of the border states in order to slow the momentum of the Confederacy. In Virginia, many Baptist…