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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week
Staunch in the Senate
150 years ago today U.S. Senator Charles Sumner died in his Washington, D.C. home. He had represented Massachusetts in the Senate since 1851. In its March 28, 1874 issue Harper’s Weekly praised Mr. Sumner for his strong anti-slavery leadership: CHARLES … Continue reading
new governor
It was a new year with a new governor for Virginia. 150 years ago a Richmond newspaper looked back with appreciation on the exiting governor – even though he was a northerner – and looked forward to the incoming governor … Continue reading
tea time
150 years ago this week people commemorated the centennial of the Boston Tea Party. According to the January 3, 1874 issue of Harper’s Weekly, one of the celebrations incorporated a contemporary political issue – women’s rights: THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY. On … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, American History, Postbellum Society
Tagged 1st South Carolina Volunteers, American revolution, Boston Tea Party, Committees of Correspondence, Faneuil Hall, Josiah Quincy II, Lendall Pitts, Lucy Stone, New England Woman's Tea Party, Old South Meeting House, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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gradual recovery
President Ulysses S. Grant’s fifth presidential Thanksgiving proclamation per Pilgrim Hall Museum: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION The approaching close of another year brings with it the occasion for renewed thanksgiving and acknowledgment … Continue reading
muted celebration?
Recently National Review compared and contrasted The United States and Britain: “Every nation needs a mythic anchor. Ours is our revolutionary self-founding. Britain is its longer, slower maturation.” Eight years after the Civil War ended a Southern newspaper didn’t feel … Continue reading
buried?
150 years ago a Southern newspaper found something to like in a Northern observance of Decoration Day. From The Daily Phoenix (Columbia, South Carolina) June 12, 1873: KIND WORDS FOR OUR SOUTHERN DEAD. Dr. Lillienthal, the well known Jewish pastor … Continue reading
peaceful transfer
The South had its Fire-Eaters, the North had John A. Dix. While briefly serving as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury for a time before Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration, John Dix sent a telegram to Treasury agents in New Orleans ordering them … Continue reading
pleasant surprise
Sir Isaac Newton isn’t usually the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about Christmas. From The Daily Phoenix, Columbia, South Carolina, December 25, 1872: Christmas. The learned have long been divided in opinion as to the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, American Culture, American Society, Postbellum Society, The Election of 1872
Tagged Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Christmas, Columbia South Carolina, Henry Wager Halleck, Mixed Commission on British and American Claims, Sir Isaac Newton, Wade Hampton III, William Tecumseh Sherman, XV Corps (Union Army)
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more or less traditionary
It was becoming a tradition. 150 years ago, for the tenth year in a row, the United States president proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving for a Thursday at the end of November. THANKSGIVING DAY 1872 BY THE PRESIDENT OF … Continue reading
General Meade, R.I.P.
The day after his Commander in Chief was re-elected United States President, General George Meade died at his Philadelphia home. From The Chicago Daily Tribune November 8, 1872: IN MEMORIAM. Honors to the Late General Meade. Washington, Nov. 7.—General Sherman … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Veterans
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, George Gordon Meade, Old Baldy
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