Tag Archives: war propaganda

“kindling the fires”

Posted on March 16, 2015 by SUMPTER

After so much blood and treasure has been invested, it’s worth a few bucks to keep fanning the flames of Southern independence. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 16, 1865: Patriotic publication Association. –The first public meeting of an association … Continue reading →

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when?

Posted on June 20, 2014 by SUMPTER

In the same issue that featured articles on Cold Harbor and the Georgia campaign and startling images of starved Union prisoners, the June 18, 1864 Harper’s Weekly (at Son of the South) published a poem by a member of President … Continue reading →

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“the suppressic veri and the suggestio falsi”

Posted on June 12, 2014 by SUMPTER

going to hurt me more than you? From the June 11, 1864 edition of Harper’s Weekly at Son of the South: Also 150 years ago this week, a Richmond paper noticed that Union Secretary of War Stanton’s telegrams to General … Continue reading →

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Richmond Rose?

Posted on July 11, 2012 by SUMPTER

Some kind of propaganda seems to be going on here. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 11, 1862: Yankee Trick. A soldier from Georgia picked up on the battlefield, a Yankee “Richmond Dispatch,” which had been dropped by some dead … Continue reading →

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Scalped?

Posted on June 4, 2012 by SUMPTER

“Beauty and Booty”, “ruthless tyrant’s march”, “Hessians”. So far the South has found lots of ways to put down the North and strike a little extra fear into the hearts of Southerners as the Union army invades. 150 years ago … Continue reading →

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Mosquitos in the Delta

Posted on October 13, 2011 by SUMPTER

I got in over my head yesterday as I was exploring the October 12, 1861 naval battle at the Head of Passes. The articles that The New-York Times reproduced from Southern papers had some major factual errors. Sometime on the … Continue reading →

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