The recent victory at the Battle of Antietam provides United States President Abraham Lincoln the political capital to make public what he has long known he must do (and what the South has long warned that the “black president” will do): begin the formal emancipation of African slaves. Today Lincoln takes the first political step…
This week, the Union Soldiers’ Aid Society of Penacook, New Hampshire is formed in the town’s Baptist Church. According to the Preamble of the organization’s Constitution: Believing that it is our duty to do all in our power for the comfort of the soldiers, who are periling their lives in defense of our Government, we…
Many extended Northern families send a number of male members to serve in the Union Army. Such is the case with the Barrage family of Massachusetts, a family of Baptists. Henry S. Burrage, born in 1837 in Fitchburg, graduated from Brown University (Providence, R.I.) in 1861, then enrolled in Newton Theological Institution (Centre, Mass.) on…