As the days turn colder, southern concern for soldiers’ health grows. Soldiers are anxious about illness in their midst, while family and friends on the home front fret about disease and illness among loved one. As Confederate soldiers serve far from homes and hearths and suffer travails, patriotic appeals for assistance from residents in the…
This week’s Tennessee Baptist, reprinting a story from the Richmond Daily Dispatch, sings the praises of patriotic southern women: The regular correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, writing from Halifax Court House, remarks on the spirit of patriotism that so generally pervades the gentler sex and furnishes the following in illustration: I was much amused at…
Home front readers of the current Tennessee Baptist are provided with a humorous account of Confederate camp life, a story poking fun at what is otherwise a dreaded event: cholera. The following account is penned by an unnamed soldier: A correspondent writing from the regimental rendezvous, in Dallas county, Texas, gives the following spicy account…