Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln writes to abolitionist Horace Greeley, responding to Greeley’s public rebuke of the president for not doing enough to free African slaves: …I have not meant to leave any one in doubt….I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority…
General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson has emerged as a hero in the minds of many white Southerners. At a time when the Confederate Army at large has not been effective in repelling Union advances, Jackson’s daring and successful military tactics serve as an inspiration to a nation under assault. A Virginia Religious Herald profile of the…
Not all German Baptist Brethren (Dunkers) are pacifists. First Lieutenant Edward Duchman Muhlenberg (1831-1883) of the 4th U.S. Artillery–Pennsylvania native, Yale graduate, civil engineer, and German Baptist–serves with Battery F in the First Battle of Winchester (Virginia) that unfolds late today and tomorrow. In the battle, Union forces led by Maj. General Nathaniel P. Banks…