Sam Richards, an Atlanta businessman and Southern Baptist who fled the city for New York following Sherman’s capture of the city, today arrives back in Atlanta. Like many other middle class white Southerners (of whom there are relatively few, actually) who did not serve during the war, whether having temporarily lived in the North or…
Sam Richards and his family, members of the Second Baptist Church of Atlanta, fled the city in the wake of Sherman’s coming and temporarily moved to New York City. With the war over, today they depart New York for the return trip to Atlanta. The Richards are among a number of white Southerners who fled…
Compared to the commotion in the North today, Christmas appears to have been a rather quiet day of celebration. From the nation’s capital, the normal sounds of city life are shattered by the firing of ordnance. The morning was “ushered in with a booming of cannon, 300 having been fired in honor of the capture…