Not all military activity ceases during these holidays. In northern Virginia today and the days following, the Frying Baptist Church, located near the Maryland state line in an area that is a hotbed of activity during the war years, finds itself in the midst of skirmishes. John S. Moseby, Confederate cavalry scout for General J.E.B.…
Against the backdrop of the year drawing to a close, readers learn details of Southern Baptist Convention mission efforts in a report from Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald newspaper that is republished in other Baptist newspapers of the South. Reflecting the currently shuttered status of the Richmond organization, the news contained in the missions report is…
As the first light of dawn pierces the morning sky, Confederate troops stationed atop Marye’s Heights and behind a stone wall along a sunken road at the base of the hill peer anxiously towards Fredericksburg. The previous day the Federal Army of the Potomac had launched several massive, but unsuccessful, assaults across several hundred yards…