The Civil War is a story of both events and individual persons. Among the soldiers of the United States Army is Thomas L. Magee, born in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio in 1836, and raised in Peoria County, Illinois. At the age of thirteen, Magee accepted Christ in a Baptist church. In his young adult years,…
On this last Thursday of November, many Northerners celebrate a day of Thanksgiving. The day is not yet recognized as a national holiday (this will not take place until next year), but is increasingly recognized as a localized or even statewide event throughout the Northern states. And while Northerners find much for which to be…
A “large and influential meeting” of Richmond, Virginia citizens takes place today. From the Richmond Dispatch: Shoes for the Soldiers. – A large and influential meeting of citizens was held yesterday [November 10], in pursuance of the call made in the daily papers, the object being to raise money to purchase shoes for such of…