Today Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky and a Confederate supporter, journals her anxieties about her nation and family. Have been busy about many things to day, but one subject is on my mind and in my heart almost forever when awake, let me be doing what I…
Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant today writes U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, voicing his “hearty support” of arming blacks in the war against the Confederate States. For Grant, the letter reflects evolving convictions; earlier in the war, Grant had not voiced sympathy for the emancipation of slaves. Cairo Illinois August 23d 1863. Sir: Your letter of…
North Carolina Baptist editor J. D. Hufham of the Biblical Recorder today addresses Confederate President Jefferson Davis‘ proclamation of a national day of fasting and prayer — to be held August 21 — and blames last month’s battlefield defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg on various sins of the Confederacy. The President has recommended Friday the…