American (Northern) Baptists are wrapping up their annual national meetings, having adopted resolutions for sending missionaries among the freedmen of the South, supporting the abolition of slavery, and affirming black suffrage. The American Baptist Publication Society votes to raise $50,000 to send missionaries to the South to re-organize Sunday Schools among the white population and…
Today Confederate General Jubal Early and the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, having raided several towns in Maryland, approach Fort Stevens just to the northwest of Washington, D.C. Early had hoped to make a surprise invasion of Washington, but had been detained too long in the previous day’s Battle of Monocacy to…
On this second day of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia, Union and Confederate forces set about trying to form their respective lines to the best possible advantage in anticipation of the fighting to come. In the midst of the jockeying for position, Union Major General John Sedgwick is killed by a Confederate…