As reported by today’s New York Times, Henry Ward Beecher has recently toured England, speaking about the American Civil War and the temperance movement. Invited to speak to Britain’s National Temperance League, his speech included a story about a Baptist church. This distinguished advocate of temperance and freedom [Beecher] having consented to meet the members…
Today in Culpeper County, Virginia, one of the last skirmishes of the Gettysburg Campaign — Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s invasion of the North, defeat at Gettysburg, and subsequent retreat — takes place. In Culpeper County, Virginia, Union cavalry cross the Rappahannock River and engages Confederate forces. The federals push the rebels towards Brandy Station…
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, fighting heroically less than two weeks ago during the failed assault on Fort Wagner near Charleston, demonstrated the will and determination of African soldiers to engage Confederate forces despite the threat of execution if captured by the rebels. Many, perhaps most, of the soldiers of the 54th were or are…