Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch commends four Georgia churches – including one Baptist congregation – for their public displays of patriotism: The correspondence which follows explains itself. We give it a place in our columns as showing the determined spirit with which the [various] religious denominations are resolved in the prosecution of the present war. It…
In the midst of large-scale death caused by the Civil War, the death of one boy in Washington, D.C. causes unparalleled anguish in the life of the President of the United States. Following a period of illness, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year old son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, dies at 5 PM today in…
Today Joseph Moses Perryman, future chief of the Creek Nation and future Baptist, enlists in the Confederate Army in Company H First Creek Regiment of Mounted Volunteers. Joining many other Creek Indians who serve in the Confederate Army, Joseph remains in uniform for the duration of the war. Born in 1833 to the grandson of…