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Tag Archives: Mississippi
with counsel like that
From the January 27, 1872 issue of Harper’s Weekly: THE KU-KLUX. WE give on this page an illustration, engraved from a photograph from life, showing three members of a band of Mississippi Ku-Klux, who are now under indictment in that … Continue reading
ebony and ivory
According to Wikipedia, Mississippi “was readmitted to the Union on January 11, 1870, and its representatives and senators were seated in Congress on February 23, 1870.”[*the dates are questionable] Although both new senators were Republicans and non-native Mississipians, one was … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, 150 Years Ago This Month, 150 Years Ago This Week, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged Adelbert Ames, Charles Sumner, Eugene Casserly, Fifteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution, George Vickers (U.S. Senator from Maryland), Hiram Rhodes Revels, John Roy Lynch, Mississippi, Natchez Mississippi
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negotiating reconstruction?
It was reported that the Mississippi legislature would give freedmen the right to testify in court if President Johnson withdrew federal (mostly colored?) troops From The New-York Times November 23, 1865: FROM MISSISSIPPI.; Negroes Allowed to Testify for their Own … Continue reading
Dangling: Reasons to Head North
This story is said to be from the Cincinnati Gazette of August 8, 1861. It was published in The New-York TimesAugust 18, 1861: A NEW-YORKER’S EXPERIENCE IN MISSISSIPPI. LORENZO D. PATRICK, Esq., arrived in this city on Monday last, from … Continue reading
