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Tag Archives: John Brown
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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pre-columbian exposition
150 years ago an article considered a logical conclusion: either the ancestors of the humans Christopher Columbus found in the Americas auto-generated (a second Adam and Eve), or Mr. Columbus and crew weren’t the first people from the Old World … Continue reading
no more prisoners?
For over three months the New York First Veteran Cavalry had been stationed at the cavalry depot near Washington, D.C. In early February 1864 the regiment left the capital and headed to the Harper’s Ferry area. Our SENECA correspondent wrote … Continue reading
Anaconda’s coil broken – again
Here’s some Southern rhetoric about the Confederacy’s great victory at Fredericksburg, which this editorial views as another failure of the North’s Anaconda Plan. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 18, 1862: Burnside’s Whereabouts. At the time of writing this article, … Continue reading
Souvenirs
Making Pipes from “Sacred Soil” On July 15, 1861 New York’s 19th Regiment marched with the rest of General Robert Patterson’s Union Army to Bunker Hill, now in West Virginia. Patterson’s army was about 13 miles from Winchester, Virginia, where … Continue reading
