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racing for Richmond?

Posted on May 5, 2014 by SUMPTER

You can read all about Day One of the Wilderness at Civil War Daily Gazette. I was a little surprised that even on the May 7, 1864 front page of The New-York Times, with mostly May 6th datelines, the reports … Continue reading →

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Sickles’ turn at bat?

Posted on October 14, 2013 by SUMPTER

This might not be on par with the May 1863 capture of Richmond, but here an upstate New York newspaper prints the rumor that there has been another command change in the Army of the Potomac. On the other hand, … Continue reading →

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Jeff’s Emancipation Proclamation?

Posted on August 30, 2013 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times August 30, 1863: VERY IMPORTANT NEWS.; The Last Rebel Card Played by Jeff. Davis. Call for Five Hundred Thousand Negro Troops. Their Freedom and Fifty Acres of Land Promised to Them. Four Rebel War Vessels Run … Continue reading →

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Richmond has fallen?

Posted on May 3, 2013 by SUMPTER

150 years ago the people of Seneca Falls, New York got fooled real good. The culprit? – A Democratic party-oriented publication pointed its finger at the Lincoln Administration. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in May 1863: The Capture … Continue reading →

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Bohemian’s Rhapsody

Posted on January 6, 2012 by SUMPTER

The Bohemian correspondent for the Richmond Daily Dispatch will apparently no longer be reporting on the Confederate Army of the Potomac under General Joseph E. Johnston. As Bohemian says his goodbyes he offers his readers a poem about highly idealized … 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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Rebel Flags at Half-Mast?

Posted on September 6, 2011 by SUMPTER

From From The New-York Times September 6, 1861: THE DEATH OF JEFF. DAVIS REAFFIRMED. LOUISVILLE, Thursday, Sept. 5. A gentleman just from Richmond, who passed through this city this morning, says that on Saturday evening the serious illness of JEFF. … Continue reading →

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Pierre’s Where???

Posted on May 13, 2011 by admin

Grain of Salt Department From The New-York Times May 14, 1861: Where is Beauregard? To the Editor of the New-York Times: By referring to your file of the TIMES you will notice that after the battle of Fort Sumter the … Continue reading →

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