What do the losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg mean for the Confederacy? This week, while the facts of battle are yet fuzzy and news stories often contradict one another, Southern newspaper editors begin trying to make sense of the recent battlefield defeats. Not atypical of the larger discourse in the Southern religious press this week,…
Today “The Slave-Martyr,” a poem originally published in The American Baptist, is re-printed in The Anglo-African. The American Baptist is a publication of Northern (American) Baptists, produced weekly by the Utica, New York-based American Baptist Free Mission Society. The society and the publication are self-described as “intensely abolitionist.” The Washington, D.C.-based abolitionist newspaper the National…
Today crowds line Boston’s Beacon Street in celebration of the deployment of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew presents the unit’s colors, after which the regiment parades down the street and to the waiting steamer De Molay for transport to Port Royal, South Carolina. Port Royal and environs, under Union control,…