Loyalties are not always clearcut in North Carolina. Although the state has contributed more soldiers to the Confederacy’s cause then any of her neighboring states, Union sentiment in the Tar Heel State is robust enough that eight Union regiments are ultimately formed from the state’s citizenry. Skirmishes between Confederate and Union loyalties have been ongoing…
With the coming of winter and in the wake of months of battlefield losses and home front economic hardships, despair has descended upon the Confederate States of America. Is there any hope of winning the terrible war waged against the abolitionist North? A brief commentary in the Georgia Baptist Christian Index , entitled “The Delusive…
Confederate Gen. James Longstreet‘s campaign to retake Knoxville, Tennessee from occupying Union forces has been underway since November 16, to no avail. Having given up on his siege efforts, Longstreet on December 4 had left the Knoxville area and headed northeast, pursued by Union forces. Today the Knoxville Campaign comes to an end when Longstreet…