Jacob S. Wood, a new enlistee in Company E, 4th Missouri Cavalry (Union) is today ordained as a Baptist minister. Born January 6, 1839, in Page County, Virginia, Rev. Wood musters into his unit on October 30, 1863. Serving throughout the war, Wood sees action throughout much of the Confederacy, from Texas in the west…
Today, a Sunday, is a formal day of fasting and prayer in the Confederacy, following the devastating losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg of the previous month. In Alabama, Baptist minister Isaac T. Tichenor–earlier in the year returned from a stint serving as a chaplain and missionary to the Confederate army and now pastoring the First…
William C. Quantrill — former Confederate soldier serving under General Benjamin McCullough and currently leader of a ruthless Western band of guerrillas with southern sympathies — leads his outlaw gang toward Lawrence, Kansas. The foray marks Quantrill’s westernmost advance. Previously confining his raids in an area from western Missouri to the Kansas border, the guerrilla…