Today in the Second Battle of Dalton (Georgia), Confederate cavalry under the command of Major General Joseph Wheeler, in the midst of a campaign to disrupt Union supply lines north of besieged Atlanta, demand the surrender of the town’s Union garrison. The Federals refuse, driving off the Rebels by day’s end. A detachment of United…
John James Price (1835-1913), native Kentuckian and Baptist layman, is a 2nd Corporal in Company L, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Confederates. Price’s wife, Mary “Mollie” Elizabeth Bradley (they were married in 1845), native of Wilson County, Tennessee, like other women has long worried that her husband will not survive the war. The couple’s children miss their…
The First Baptist Church West Main Street, Charlottesville, Virginia, an African American congregation, traces its beginnings to March 16, 1863. That was the day that some 800 black members of the Charlottesville Baptist Church petitioned the church’s white leaders to allow them to form their own congregation. Today their request is finally granted, and the…