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Tag Archives: Boston
temple tussle
The day before the 1860 U.S. presidential election the governor of South Carolina advised secession in the event of Abraham Lincoln’s probable victory. Thanks to the telegraph, that news got up North very quickly. On Election Day, November 6, 1860, … Continue reading
Posted in 160 Years Ago, Secession and the Interregnum, Slavery, The election of 1860
Tagged abolitionists, Boston, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Douglass, James Redpath, John Brown, John Sella Martin, Nathan Hale, Robert E. Lee, Storer College, Tremont Temple, William Fisher Packer, William Jasper, William Lloyd Garrison
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“Summer of Peace”
150 years ago this week a National Peace Jubilee was held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Coliseum, a temporary structure built especially for the Jubilee. In its May 22, 1869 issue Harper’s Weekly anticipated the big event: THE NATIONAL PEACE … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Boston, Carl Zerahn, Eben Tourjée, National Peace Jubilee, National Peace Jubilee 1869, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Sri Swami Satchidananda, Susan J. Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodstock 1969
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dull day
Since there were over 1460 of them, I guess you had to expect a boring one once in a while. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 5, 1864: The War News. There was nothing at all of interest transpiring yesterday … Continue reading
hub letter
It seems that this civilian correspondent could relate just about all his topics to the war. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1864: LETTER FROM BOSTON. BOSTON, MASS., July 11, 1864. FRIEND STOWELL: – Now that our “Russian … Continue reading
On the Waterfront and Elsewhere
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch October 20, 1862: Scarcity of laborers at the North. –In some portions of the State workmen are scarce, in consequence of the drain for the war. The laborers upon the wharves of this city have … Continue reading
“casting about” for substitutes
An editorial in the Boston Journal via the Richmond Daily Dispatch of August 8, 1862 encourages Boston’s more successful men to volunteer instead of paying for substitutes: Leading men wanted in the Federal army. The Bottom [Boston] Journal has an … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Military Matters, Northern Society
Tagged Boston, recruitment, substitutes
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