Today’s New York Times publishes an editorial suggesting that the time has come, for the sake of the nation, that the four denominations that split prior to the war, reunite. The four denominations in question are: Old-School Presbyertians New-School Presbyterians Methodists Baptists The article treats the organizations in aggregate, as well as offering some comments…
Compared to the commotion in the North today, Christmas appears to have been a rather quiet day of celebration. From the nation’s capital, the normal sounds of city life are shattered by the firing of ordnance. The morning was “ushered in with a booming of cannon, 300 having been fired in honor of the capture…
While the Overland and Atlanta campaigns dominate the battlefield news this month, Union forces periodically collide with Confederates in skirmishes in Louisiana and Arkansas as the Federal troops slowly but systematically extend their presence in the western theater of the war. One such small clash occurs today in the Battle of Old River Lake (also…