In Union-controlled Tennessee, formerly enslaved African Americans, many of them Baptist, are publicly expressing their sentiments to the state’s politicians, including Governor Andrew Johnson. African American attorney John Mercer Langston, born a slave, is one of the most prominent voices. On January 2, he addressed some 3,500 Unionists, 3,000 of them black, declaring that the…
Determination. Desperation. Defiance. The very moods that one might argue have emerged in succession during the course of the war on the part of the Confederacy are all evident this very day in the Battle of Nashville. Confederate General John Bell Hood, leading the Army of the Tennessee, has evidenced, against daunting odds, a heroic…
For almost two weeks Confederate General John Bell Hood‘s Army of the Tennessee has been camped outside of Nashville, waiting for Federal forces occupying the city to make the first move. Soon that move will come, as tonight Union Major General H. Thomas prepares to assault the Rebels as the day dawns on the morrow.…