At Dry Creek Baptist Church in Kenton County, Kentucky, on the southern border of the Ohio River below Cincinnati, the Northbend Baptist Association convenes. Congregations in Kenton and Boone counties comprise the association’s membership. Although usually meeting for three days, this year’s meeting is limited to one day, because of the war-caused distractions. Northbend messengers…
On the northern home front, a strange accident takes the life of one of the most prominent men of the state of Massachusetts. George Nixon Briggs (born 1796), lawyer, former U.S. Whig Congressmen (1831-1843) and seven-term governor of Massachusetts (1844-1851), reaches for an overcoat in the closet of his home in Pittsfield. In so doing,…
Today the son of a Baptist minister enlists in the Confederate Army, Company K, 1 It Regiment, South Carolina Infantry. In so doing, Lucias Chambers chooses to fight alongside one brother, Lamech, and against another brother, Lemuel, who serves in the Union army. Lucias participates in the Battle of Port Royal on the South Carolina…