Today Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky and a Confederate supporter, journals her anxieties about her nation and family. Have been busy about many things to day, but one subject is on my mind and in my heart almost forever when awake, let me be doing what I…
The Tennessee city of Chattanooga, evacuated by Confederate forces, is today occupied by the Union army. Following a weeks-long Union offensive, the federals take over the city without a shot fired in opposition. Meanwhile, a little further west in Tennessee, readers of today’s Memphis Bulletin are treated to a summary of religious life in that…
Union forces, advancing ever southward, are pressuring Texas, intent on occupying a portion of the southwestern state. Today Union naval forces move up the Sabine River in a second attempt (the first being the prior year) of trying to gain control of the waterway at Sabine Pass. Today the offensive meets stiff resistance from Confederate…