As Union and Confederate forces fight fiercely in Virginia and Georgia, Thomas E. Seerley (1826-1914) is en route to Oregon, one of thousands who are traveling West to seek their fortunes and/or escape the ravages of war. It is a long, dangerous journey by wagon train that Seerley has embarked upon. Many making the trek…
Three years after the beginning of the war, both North and South are desperately recruiting soldiers to fill their decimated army ranks. Today Tennesseans Lemuel and Barak Chambers, father and son, enlist in the Union Army. They have long-standing Baptist roots. The father of Barak and grandfather of Lemuel, Barak Chambers (1792-1847), was a Baptist…
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…