Tag Archives: Lew Wallace

no gray area

Baltimore erupted in April 1861 as Northern troops marched through it on their way to defend the United States’ capital. Three years later, the recently appointed military commander in Baltimore apparently was trying to make it clear that he wasn’t … Continue reading

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potpourri

150 years ago this month a grab bag of miscellaneous news was dominated by the war. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1864: News Miscellany. No less than 500 of our prisoners in Richmond died during February. … Continue reading

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Keepin’ Jeff in the Whale’s Belly

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch November 19, 1861: Black Republican Decency. –We clip the following from the Evansville (Ia.) [In.?] Journal of the 6th, and give it as a specimen: A Rick Town. [?]–Lew, Wallace, after the reception of his … Continue reading

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