As Union battlefield victories and strategic advances grow, unrest in the Confederate capital is also on the rise. Writing from Richmond, Baptist Abby Gwathney conveys to the her parents the unease which pervades the city and state, the former now under martial law. She notes (excerpted): We are expecting a battle daily on the Peninsula.…
Today in Tennessee, Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Stephen Hurlbut arrive at Pittsburg Landing and move inland to Shiloh Church, a small log building. Three weeks hence, the Battle of Shiloh, a major conflict in the Western theater of the war, will take place around this small church. The church was built by United Methodists,…
Today is the best day of the war thus far for the United States of America, as General Ulysses S. Grant captures the Confederate’s Fort Donelson on Tennessee’s Cumberland River, following a four day campaign. After the capture of Fort Henry, ten miles to the west and ten days earlier, Grant’s army had marched to…