John Fletcher Hamlin from Warren, Pennsylvania is a soldier in the190th Pennsylvania Infantry. Originally having enlisted with the Pennsylvania First Rifles on August 23, 1861, he was 20 years old at the time of his re-enlistment with the 190th. As is the case with many soldiers North and South, Hamlin writes letters to home during…
Today in Prince William County, Virginia, the Third Corps of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia attack the Second Corps of Union Gen. George E. Meade‘s Army of the Potomac. The Battle of Bristoe Station begins with a surprise attack upon the unsuspecting federals: the initial shells fall as the federals are…
Following a string of prior Northern Baptist resolutions supporting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Ohio Baptists, assembled at their annual state convention this month, offer their own resolution. “Whereas the powers that be are ordained of God, and he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God,” and is threatened with…