For home front Baptists of the South, life marches on, tension and emotionally-filled that it may be. Sunday worship services and certain other religious ceremonies offer moments of normalcy during a time that is anything but normal. One such ceremony is that of the ordination of ministers. Such an event takes place today in Virginia,…
West Virginia, officially formed last month as a state by popular vote (but yet to be formally admitted to the Union), is on the side of the Union. Yet, Union control over the former western region of Confederate Virginia is tenuous. This weekend, Confederate forces exploit the weak Union presence in the town of Guyandotte…
The day is marked by two momentous events, one to the West and one to the East. Both impact the war. Westward, “workers of the Western Union Telegraph Company link the eastern and western telegraph networks of the nation at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allows instantaneous…