With the spring battle season drawing nigh, United States General Ulysses S. Grant, now head of all federal forces, today sends notice to the Confederacy that prisoner exchanges benefiting the South will no longer be allowed. Grant’s new prisoner exchange policy disallows one on one prisoner exchanges which are beneficial to the smaller Confederate Army.…
Runaway inflation, coupled with the lack of hard cash, has made life extremely hard for most common folk in the Confederacy. Food stuffs and other staples of life, items that are now cost-prohibitive for many home front citizens, are so expensive as to often be out of reach in terms of acquiring an adequate supply…
The editor of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder, J. D. Hufham, this week offers a few remarks about the spiritual challenges of army camp life and then refers to a news item concerning religion among Confederate soldiers. We are pleased to learn, from various quarters, that a deep religious feeling prevails among many of our…