In the days and weeks following the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved Africans of the Confederacy experience new hope for freedom. For some, the legal freedom granted them by the United States leads to renewed efforts to escape from their masters or stretch the boundaries of their autonomy while yet enslaved. In Fredericksburg, both…
The Confederate victory at Fredericksburg is evident to all. Commanding strategic locations in and around the city, Southern forces have slaughtered their Northern counterparts thus far, and are prepared to continue the slaughter today. For his part, Union General Ambrose Burnside yet wishes to press his offensive against Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s forces, but…
Not all Southern Baptist churches are happy with the state of affairs in the Confederacy. A growing propensity for Confederate army units to drill on the Sabbath is particularly offensive to many Baptists of the South, who seemingly have forgotten that only a few years earlier Baptists in America at large, champions of church state…