Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, in the midst of invading the North with his Army of Northern Virginia, today confers with Gen. A. P. Hill on the town square of Chambersburg, Virginia. The U.S. government and army seem hapless to stop the invasion. Meanwhile, Confederate naval vessels are raiding far northward. Having captured a Maine…
“Freedom’s Eve” has given way to the morning of January 1, the day U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln arises in anticipation of signing the Proclamation, only to be distracted by a message from General Ambrose Burnside who, following his defeat at Fredericksburg two weeks earlier, is offended by a…
Anticipation grows ever greater among free blacks of the North and Union-controlled South, as well as among many enslaved blacks in the Confederacy. The Emancipation Proclamation is only two days away. Salvation from physical bondage is near, if only on paper for enslaved blacks within the Confederacy. Salvation of another kind is also on the…