Two minor battles take place today, one in which the Union emerges victorious, while the Confederacy triumphs in the other. Like many other clashes this year of no direct significance to the outcome of the war, the impact of these two battles is localized, albeit reflecting important dynamics of the war. The Battle of Droop…
This week Richmond’s Leigh Street Baptist and several other city churches devise a plan to help care for poor citizens of the Confederate capital city during the coming winter months, as reported by today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch. Our readers will be glad to see that suitable efforts are being made to take care of the…
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…