Baptists and the American Civil War: February 2, 1865
Inland from Beauford, Union General William T. Sherman is now in Hampton County, South Carolina, at “Duck Branch Post-Office, Thirty-one miles out from Pocotaligo.” Today’s march was eleven miles, yesterday’s twenty. Some of his troops having marched into South Carolina earlier, Sherman’s forces are now fully engaged in the invasion of the Palmetto State. Meanwhile…