Today Confederate forces on land and water attack Union-held Plymouth, North Carolina. The dual-fronted offensive, highlighted by the recently-launched ironside CSS Albermarle, overwhelms the Union defenders. In this second-largest battle fought in North Carolina during the war, the Confederates notch an impressive victory. For its part, the Albemarle rams two Union ships, putting them out…
Religion, long woven into the fabric of the South prior to the war, was used an ideological weapon against the abolitionist North decades before the war began. More to the point, white religion is that which has served to uphold the moral and biblical righteousness of white supremacy and African slavery while creating a Christian…
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers comprise the armies of the United States and Confederate States combined. Battle wounds, illnesses, despair, loneliness, and other ailments often characterize the lives of soldiers who are fortunate enough to have survived the war thus far. And hovering above all is the ever-present cloud of homesickness. Left to fend for…