The war, well into its third year, is a canvas upon which countless human stories unfold. Tragedy is often the theme of such stories, yet spiritual victories and simple stories of human inspiration are also splayed across the canvas of war. Baptist newspapers North and South often carry short items of interest, little stories that…
The Civil War has raised racial tensions to new heights in the South and in some areas of the North. The number of openly racist Northerners is such that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is not assured of re-election in the coming 1864 election. Hoping to tip the presidential election away from Lincoln and force the…
The second day of the Chattanooga Campaign proves similar to the first in that the Union again emerges victorious. Today’s Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain is impressive and decisive. In the “battle above the clouds,” U.S. troops, led by General Joseph Hooker, climb the slopes of Lookout Mountain in an effort to…