While Washington D.C. is alarmed at the news of a possible Confederate invasion (which comes of naught in the days ahead), further to the north this month the pastor of the Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York composes a song that will be long remembered. Robert Lowry (1826-1899) is a Philadelphia native who…
In an attempt to draw Union forces away from Petersburg, Confederate General Jubal A. Early has for days been ransacking territory behind enemy lines. Now in Maryland, Early’s troops have ransomed Hagerstown and Middletown and hope to take Frederick next. This morning, however, Northern troops on a scouting mission run into a contingent of Early’s…
White residents of the Confederate States of America have nothing to celebrate this Fourth of July. Their freedom to enslave blacks is in danger of being taken away by a relentless Northern abolitionist army, a prospect that would collapse the economic, social and cultural foundations of the South. An editorial in this week’s North Carolina…