Today in the Battle of Johnsonville, Confederate cavalry commander Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, in an effort to smooth the way for the South’s Army of the Tennessee to invade Tennessee from Alabama, prepares to engage Union forces in Benton and Humphreys counties, Tennessee. Forrest’s target is the lightly-guarded Union supplies and infrastructure Johnsonville, as…
As it has done on a number of occasions in recent months, the South Carolina Confederate Baptist, edited by Jacob M. C. Breaker, again blasts Christians of the Confederacy, including many Baptists, who insist on further entwining church and state in the already de facto Christian Confederate States of America. Church state union is a…
In the deep South, Union forces now have a secure hold on the South Carolina coast. Beaufort is under control of the 100th Pennsylvania Regiment, the men of whom are convinced they are following the directive of God in ensuring the welfare of the freedmen under their protection, following a victorious fall campaign against Confederate…