Today in Syracuse, New York, Winfield Scott, freshly graduated from Baptists’ Rochester Theological Seminary, is ordained by the Seneca Baptist Association. Born on February 26, 1837, in West Novi, Oakland County, Michigan, Winfield is the first son and fourth child in a large family of three brothers and four sisters. At the time of his…
James Skidmore, born on April 12, 1830 in Hardy County, West Virginia, today enlists in the Fifty-First Illinois. Though a relatively young 31 years of age, Skidmore’s life to this point has been filled with sorrow. He married Rebecca C. McBee in Hardy County in 1852. In 1856 the couple moved, with their three children,…
Many northern Christians, including many Baptists, are convinced of the righteousness of the Union cause: the unity of the American nation and freedom for African slaves. This certainty leads the Young Men’s Christian Association of Albany, New York to petition for a Battery Regiment. Today the Independent Battery, Flying Artillery is authorized, under the leadership…