Kentucky, an officially neutral state to this point, moves toward the Union as newly-elected legislators take office today. The elected officials strong Union sympathies match the sentiments of a majority of Kentuckians. Not all the state’s residents, however, are pleased with the new legislature. Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in…
John H. Corn, born in Indiana in 1831 and now living in Illinois, enlists in Company A, Fortieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He and wife Paulina attend the local Missionary Baptist Church, where Paulina is a member but John perhaps never joins. During six months of service, John serves the Union army in Missouri and Kentucky,…
To the West, Missouri remains a hotly contested state. While the state remains within the Union, many Missourians serve in the Confederate army. In some instances Missouri families are divided in sentiments, and brother fights against brother. Such is the case with Alexander and James Moore of Farmington. Today Alexander, age nineteen, enlists with the…