The Southern coastline is a weak link in the Confederacy. Their ports cut off by Union blockades, and many key coastal land areas now under the control of the United States Army, the Confederate States is largely isolated from its own coastline. Furthermore, the Northern military presence in the region is leading to ever-growing numbers…
Anticipation grows ever greater among free blacks of the North and Union-controlled South, as well as among many enslaved blacks in the Confederacy. The Emancipation Proclamation is only two days away. Salvation from physical bondage is near, if only on paper for enslaved blacks within the Confederacy. Salvation of another kind is also on the…
Christmas is not yet a national holiday, nor do Baptists North or South recognize the day as either a holiday or a holy day. However, the era of modern Christmas celebrations is presaged with an illustration by illustrator and cartoonist Thomas Nast, who this holiday season publishes in Harper’s Weekly what is considered to be the…