Wayne County, Kentucky, is deeply conflicted. Economically tied to the North and having familial connections with the South, Kentucky families and neighbors in this land in which slavery is much less central than in the Deep South are divided, with emotions running high. The rapid unraveling of harmony is now on intense display in Wayne…
Charles Henry Rowe (born 1834) of Gloucester, Maine, having graduated from Newton Theological Institution earlier this year, is today ordained into the Baptist ministry. Upon his ordination, he assumes his first pastorate at Holyoke Baptist Church in Holyoke, Massachusetts. One year later, he returns to his home state, accepting a call to pastor the First…
Today, a father and son – both Baptists – enlist in Company B, Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Marching off to war together, Edward T. Durant (born 1819) and son William E. (born 1843) serve the United States in its time of greatest need. Like many other soldiers, they are common folk: Edward is a farmer-turned-carpenter,…