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Tag Archives: Seneca Falls newspapers
Burnside Exiled?
I guess if you’re a strongly Democratic party newspaper you have to pretty much criticize everything the Lincoln administration does. After the Battle of Fredericksburg a Seneca County, New York newspaper blasted the Lincoln and his War Department for the … Continue reading
Little Fireside Chats
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper on January 3, 1863: CONFIDENCE IN THE ARMY OF M’CLELLAN. – S.P. Allen, Esq. editor of the Rochester Democrat, on a visit to the Army of the Potomac, at Fredericksburg, writes that paper … Continue reading
Hey Junius
A Democrat newspaper found a graphic way of illustrating Democrat support for the Civil War by using a table of enlistment results – its majority Democrat county easily reached its quota of volunteers under the federal administration’s call for 600,000 … Continue reading
A Masterly Retreat
Here’s a long letter home from 150 years ago this week that talks mostly about the Seven Days’ Battles. The 33rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment’s main fight was the relatively minor Battle of Garnett’s & Golding’s Farm – the … Continue reading
Cry, Our Beloved Country
unHappy Fourth of July! Yesterday the Republican-leaning New-York Times reflected on General McClellan’s retreat from near Richmond and got more fired up for the North to do whatever it took to put down the rebellion. In this editorial a Democrat-leaning … Continue reading
All for $13 per month (with pork and hard bread)
Here’s another letter from a member of the 33rd New York Volunteer Infantry. 150 years ago this week the 33rd was taking part in the Union siege of Yorktown. This is quite a long letter that begins with a recap … Continue reading
Trading Barbs and Bullets
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1862: Letter from Lieut. Brett. Camp Near Yorktown, Va. April, 11th 1862. Since I last wrote, we have had some pretty sharp fighting. Our brigade thus far has done all the skirmishing … Continue reading
Big Tow Operation
150 years ago this fortnight a native son of Seneca Falls, New York wrote some letters home from far, far away at the mouth of the Mississippi River. JOHN was a mate in the Union navy that was preparing for … Continue reading
Pontoon Games
Last month Yates County, NY, in the Civil War published two interesting letters from soldiers in the 50th New York Engineers. I found a couple articles about the 50th from Seneca County newspapers 150 years ago this month. Penn Yan … Continue reading
No Wake for Finegan?
A Christmas Killing A Seneca County, New York newspaper in January, 1862 included this Boxing Day letter home: From the Thirty-Third Regiment CAMP GRIFFIN, 33D REGIMENT, Co. K. Dec. 26, 1861. I improve the opportunity of writing you this morning. … Continue reading
