Today in Culpeper County, Virginia, one of the last skirmishes of the Gettysburg Campaign — Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s invasion of the North, defeat at Gettysburg, and subsequent retreat — takes place. In Culpeper County, Virginia, Union cavalry cross the Rappahannock River and engages Confederate forces. The federals push the rebels towards Brandy Station…
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, fighting heroically less than two weeks ago during the failed assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, demonstrated the will and determination of African soldiers to engage Confederate forces despite the threat of execution if captured by the rebels. Many, perhaps most, of the soldiers of the 54th were or are…
Despite the recent draft riots in New York City, the military drafts are now well underway throughout much of the North. Although uppermost in the minds of Northern citizens and often worrisome, conscription proceeds at an orderly pace in most all instances. Even Baptist pastors are not exempt, as today’s New York Times reports. From…