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Author Archives: SUMPTER
Team of dead-wood?
According to this report, an Albany, New York newspaper thinks the Confederacy is doing as well as it is in the rebellion because its government is non-partisan and set up on a war footing. The Lincoln administration, on the other … Continue reading
Confederate Thanksgiving
Without a telegraph connection it took a long time for news to travel 150 years ago. I did not see an “extra”; there was not much accurate news about the Battle of Antietam in the Dispatch for a few days … Continue reading
Heroically Caring for the Wounded
During the Battle of Antietam the 33rd New York Infantry fought as part of William H. Irwin’s brigade, Baldy Smith’s division, William B. Franklin’s corps. According to Colonel Irwin’s report his brigade began fighting at about 10 AM in support … Continue reading
Bucktail Idol
150 years ago today George McClellan ordered Joseph Hooker’s corps of the Union Army of the Potomac to cross Antietam Creek at the north bridge near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was congregating. There was little … Continue reading
No Pressure
Just save the American republic and millions yet to be born From the Richmond Daily Dispatch September 16, 1862: The young Napoleon Redivivus. McClellan, like the straw to the drawing man, is again important at the North. The Herald, of … Continue reading
“like the Pope’s bull against the comet!”
In this letter dated 150 years ago yesterday President Lincoln admits to some religious folk from Chicago that the question of proclaiming liberty to the slaves “is on my mind, by day and night, more than any other.” But he … Continue reading
Pursuing coy maidens
150 years ago this month the CSS Alabama, commissioned on August 24, 1862 as a commerce raider and commanded by Raphael Semmes, began its career by capturing Yankee whaling ships around the Azores. The captured ships were burned after securing … Continue reading
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“The hour of Maryland’s deliverance”
And time for a little retaliation The Richmond editors are rallying the citizens to support the Confederate armies as they move to the offensive. I like the image of the Union army being like an eternal tide that advances into … Continue reading
No Bragg, Just Fact
General Bragg works to prevent the corruption of his troops. Seven Score and Ten points out that 150 years ago the Union high command was quite concerned about where Braxton Bragg was aiming his army as the Confederates were continuing … Continue reading
A Noble Canandaiguan
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in September 1862: The Right Kind of Volunteer. CONRAD BANCROFT, of the town of Canandaigua, has enlisted as a private in the company of Capt. Griswold, in Col. Johnson’s regiment, now being formed … Continue reading
