The Albemarle Baptist Association of Virginia meets this week at Adiel Baptist Church in Nelson County. A correspondent from the Richmond Daily Dispatch reports on the meeting and Nelson County. The story, apparently composed by a reporter who has not previously attended such meetings, mentions an aspect of associational meetings not reported in official minutes…
Today Confederate President Jefferson Davis replies to Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s recent letter to him concerning the devastating loss at Gettysburg. Davis expresses confidence in Lee and assures the general that no one is capable of taking his place as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Richmond, Va., August 11, 1863. General R. E.…
Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports on activity along Virginia’s peninsula, as well as revivals within Virginia regiments. All is quiet on the Peninsula since the late gunboat fight. The forces engaged in the actions with the steamers at Deep Bottom and Turkey Island were eight companies of the 26th Va. regiment and one section each…