Today Union raiders create havoc in Wright City, Missouri, a town in a border state evidencing mixed, vocal loyalties. Targeting buildings where Southern sympathizers are known to gather, the militia first strike the Baptist church, torching the meeting house. As the church blazes, the raiders move on to two local businesses, setting fire to a…
Today the Union captures Little Rock, Arkansas in the Battle of Bayou Fourche. Afterwards, state Confederate forces retreat to Arkadelphia and Rockport and establish a new state capitol at Washington, in Hempstead County. The fall of Little Rock further fragments the Confederate nation as the Southwest is increasingly isolated from the rest of the South.…
Today the Long Run Baptist Association of Kentucky meets, an association that includes the city of Louisville, located across the Ohio River from the Union state of Indiana. Kentucky is a border state now solidly under Union control. News summaries from individual churches largely focus on internal matters, and are reported as follows: Elk Creek.…