Weeks before the first major battle of the Civil War, a tragic event takes the life of a Virginia Baptist soldier. The Richmond Times Dispatch thus reports this week: Our citizens were astounded … as if by a peal of thunder from a clear sky, by the intelligence of the death of Captain C. F.…
Today Kentucky declares its neutrality in the Civil War. Kentucky’s decision is a big blow to the Confederacy, ultimately proving important to Union victory four years down the road. The decision, this same day, of North Carolina’s secession convention to withdraw from the Union – the tenth state to do so – does not mitigate…
Andrew Levering, graduate of Andover Newton Theological Seminary in Newton, Massachusetts, former Baptist pastor in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and now living in St. Paul, Minnesota, musters in the St. Paul Pioneer Guard (later a part of Company A of the First Minnesota Infantry) as a private. He is 33 years old. He got into trouble once…