Southern Baptists are now publishing religious tracts and New Testaments for soldiers by the thousands. The extensive nature of their soldier publications through the Baptist Colportage Board in Richmond, Virginia, is evident. As reported by the Richmond Times Daily Dispatch: Much good may be done in the progress of the present campaign by clergymen, as…
The war between South and North has been waging for almost five months. Kentucky is now aligned with the Union, following Confederate incursions in the state a few days earlier, a move that violated the state’s (then) neutrality. Nonetheless, much Confederate sentiment remains within the Bluegrass state during the war. Virginia, likewise, harbors divided loyalties.…
Today one of the worst fears of Southern slaveholders is realized: the first school for emancipated slaves is established in Alexandria, Virginia by Mary Chase, an African American woman. The laws of southern states, with the lone exception of Tennessee, have long decreed that it is a crime to teach African slaves to read and…