While officially over, the war continues winding down in many respects. In the North, the United States government is in the midst of a military commission trial of the conspirators in Lincoln‘s assassination, while President Andrew Johnson and Congress are engaged in the beginning stages of the difficult task of reforming Southern state governments, the…
With gloom and bitterness, winter draws nigh. Death and desertion has left Confederate armies but a shadow of their former strength. General Sherman is mere miles from the Georgia coast and the Union is putting yet more men in uniform in order to prepare for a renewed spring offensive against Richmond. In all but the…
En route to Nashville, the Confederate Army of the Tennessee engages Union troops at Murfreesboro, losing yet again. The 200 Confederate casualties are minor, yet the Confederacy can ill-afford any soldier losses at this point. Undaunted, General John Bell Hood is determined to continue forward and seize Union-controlled Nashville. Today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper…