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Tag Archives: newspaper suppression
“false and spurious”
President Lincoln wasn’t going to shut down a paper for printing exaggerated stories about the in-laws, but he acted promptly when a couple journals published a fabricated presidential call for 400,000 more soldiers and a Day of Thanksgiving. The date … Continue reading
Appealing for Press Freedom
It is said that, unlike the Lincoln administration, the CSA never suppressed dissenting opinions. The Memphis Daily Appeal says that being able to state military facts is necessary to back up its opinions and hold the Confederate leadership accountable. From … Continue reading
St. Louis Blues v. Grays
Isn’t the telegraph great?. People in New York can read news from St. Louis as quickly as from Gotham itself. Missouri, a border state, is more divided than other states. The Union Provost-Marshall General wants to monitor newspapers throughout the … Continue reading
Parson Shuts Down
We’ve seen evidence that the Lincoln administration has been shutting down opposition newspapers. 150 years ago today the news made it to Gotham that a similar event occurred in the Confederacy. Parson William Brownlow had announced he was suspending publication … Continue reading
NYPD: Sedition Squad
As early as May, 1861 pro-Union Americans in Europe sent a battery of cannon to the U.S. government. Among the several alleged anti-Union acts detailed here, a British subject living in New York City is trying to induce a ship’s … Continue reading
Shovel Manufacturer Does His Part
To Aid Secession’s Cause You can read a good account of the pro-Union attack on the Bridgeport Advertiser & Farmer at the Civil War Daily Gazette. The northern loyalists found some interesting items while ransacking the newspapers offices. From The … Continue reading
