Today Union troops, having landed the previous day on Morris Island in Charleston harbor, begin a campaign to capture the island’s Fort Wagner (also known as Battery Wagner), a well-guarded Confederate fortress built upon beach sands south of Charleston. Controlling the fort would put a little more pressure on the nearby South Carolina coastal city.…
Who caused the war? A brief piece in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder firmly pins the blame on Northern abolitionists. It has been common, in some parts of the Confederacy, for the members of one political party to charge their opponents with having caused this war. A new aspirant for the honor is…
Today the Confederate fortress of Port Hudson, Louisiana, located on the Mississippi River, finally surrenders to sieging Union forces. Rebels are forced to give up due to the unbearable hot summer climate and lack of water and food. The entirety of the Mississippi River is now firmly under control of the United States, separating the…