Arkansas, 25 years old as a state, is on the frontier of the American South. Fort Smith, existent thanks to the U.S. military, represents both the frontier status of the state and the high degree of dependence that Arkansas has upon the federal government. To the west, especially in the Ozarks, dwell white families who…
Emerging from the annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention in Athens are hints that the war will severely disrupt Southern Baptist life and ministries, and an acknowledgment that Southern Baptists’ mission enterprise is dependent upon the profits of slave labor (illustrated is a common scene in Georgia during the Civil War years). The Committee…
President Abraham Lincoln sends a message to South Carolina Governor Francis W. Pickens stating that he will attempt to send supplies to Fort Sumter: …an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with provisions only, and that if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition will be…