While momentum has shifted to the Confederacy in the wake of the recent, successful repulsing of the Union offensive against the nation’s capital of Richmond, much of Tennessee remains under Union control. In response to the U.S. presence in Tennessee, Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest for several weeks has been conducting calvary raids in…
Green Clay Smith (1826-1895), born in Richmond, Kentucky and a lawyer by profession, is an officer in the United States Army. In May, Smith helped rout Confederate forces commanded by John Hunt Morgan at Lebanon, Tennessee. Formerly a colonel, today he is appointed as brigadier general of the Fourth Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry.…
An editorial in this week’s Christian Index defends the rightness of the South and reinforces Amos C. Dayton’s Georgia speaking tour in defense of the godliness of African slavery. We are delighted when we contemplate the state of public sentiment in the South. We perceived during all our late reverses no wavering, no doubting, no…