Tag Archives: Rush Hawkins

Road Trip

Posted on May 24, 2013 by SUMPTER

Guns Along the Mohawk? 150 years ago this week lots of two year volunteers were returning North after their term of service had expired. In this article veterans in New York City are wasting no time planning a trip to … Continue reading →

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Constitution as Marketing Tool for Wonder Drug

Posted on October 24, 2011 by SUMPTER

Radway & Co. took out a large spot to promote its products. The ad seems kind of modern. Here’s bits of it. From The New-York Times October 23, 1861: A FREE GIFT; TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WHAT THE FEDERAL TROOPS … Continue reading →

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Zouaves in NC

Posted on October 4, 2011 by SUMPTER

This proclamation is a couple weeks old, but I give the Dispatch credit for playing it straight – after besmirching the good colonel as a “Lincoln Deputy”. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch October 1, 1861: Proclamation to the people of … Continue reading →

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