The day after the bloodiest day in the war, the sun dawns on an apocalyptic scene in and around a small Baptist church near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Maryland has turned into a disaster of unimagined proportions. Some 12,000 soldiers lie dead or dying in a cornfield, as the Confederates…
This week, against Southern jubilation over the victory in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index, offers a summation of the second annual session of the Confederate Congress, currently in the third week (the session will not conclude until October) in Richmond, the nation’s capital. Many important bills…
A letter from an anonymous North Carolina Confederate soldier is published in today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch, lamenting the Confederate government not protecting his state’s citizens from marauding federal troops. Thinking it may be interesting to the many readers of your excellent paper and perhaps cause our Government to turn a listening ear to the plaintive…