Thomas Carleton Cheney (1831-1900) is a native of New Hampshire and a member of the First Free Baptist Church of Manchester, New Hampshire. At the age of 28, Cheney enlisted in 1861 as a private in the First New Hampshire Voluntary Light Battery. During the war, the Baptist layman has fought in almost every major…
Tennessee businessman and Baptist layman Joseph Alexander Mabry, Jr. (1826-1882), takes the oath of allegiance to the United States of America. Born in Knox County to a political family, Mabry probably attended Holston Seminary, a Methodist institution, before becoming a land speculator in Knoxville in the early 1850s. Using his political connections, Mabry in 1858…
The steady drip of bad news within the Confederacy continues. The summer and fall of 1863 witnessed a growing number of soldier desertions, a problem that only worsens during the cold days of winter. Already short of manpower, military officials (unlike earlier in the war) now routinely execute deserters who are unfortunate enough to be…