Today in the nation’s capital of Washington, D.C. the Grand Review of the Armies takes place. Beginning at 9:00 a.m. sharp on a bright and sunny day, some 80,000 soldiers from the Union Army of the Potomac parade through the streets to the cheers of politicians, officials and citizens, including president Andrew Johnson, standing alongside…
With the war over, the faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina, shuttered during most the war, hope to reopen the institution. Success however, is far from assured. Compounding the seminary’s prospects are the reduced fortunes of professor and president James P. Boyce. Wealthy prior the war, during the great conflict…
Some five weeks after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, the ripples of the South’s defeat continue to spread. Today Jacob Elliot, a lawyer and Texas Baptist, hears rumors of the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate Army: “May 19: — Mr. S. Williams reports that the…