Today in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, far from the Union offensive against Richmond, Confederate General Jubal Early‘s forces defeat Federal forces near Winchester in the Second Battle of Kernstown. While the Confederacy wins this battle, it proves to be the last Rebel victory in the Shenandoah Valley. The Union defeat this day marks the beginning of…
As spring grows ever bloodier in Virginia and Georgia, the successes of prolonged winter revivals in the Confederate Army are yet celebrated by Southern Baptists. By one tally, some forty chapels have been built within army camps, while numerous army congregations have been established, the latter despite some opposition to the concept of forming congregations…
“I do not recollect of ever having heard such a roar of musketry.” So declares Thomas Jonathan Jackson after the First Battle of Kernstown in Virgina. Jackson is more popularly known as General “Stonewall” Jackson. Jackson and his 3,000 Confederate soldiers today fight a Union force of more than twice their size in an opening…