Author Archives: SUMPTER

snowball’s chance in Dalton?

Posted on March 22, 2014 by SUMPTER

Pretty good in March 1864: It is written: “On rare occasions it snowed and like children released from school, the troops treated any snowfall as an occasion for play. On March 22 dawn revealed a fresh 5 inches of new … Continue reading →

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pledge passive allegiance?

Posted on March 21, 2014 by SUMPTER

After endorsing B.F. Butler for the United States presidency because he was the biggest thief among the candidates, the Richmond Daily Dispatch of March 21, 1864 published the following exchange of letters between General Butler and a Virginia schoolteacher: Butler … Continue reading →

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reprieve

Posted on March 20, 2014 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1864: SENTENCED TO BE SHOT. – At a recent court martial, presided over by Capt. Winfield Scott, of the 126th Regiment, private Chas. Audler, of the 108th Regiment, was tried, convicted, … Continue reading →

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pacific theater

Posted on March 18, 2014 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1864: PROMOTED. – The friends of Lieut. HENRY B. SEELY, of the U.S. Navy, will be pleased to learn that he has been promoted to Lieutenant Commander. An 1857 graduate of … Continue reading →

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more men for Mars

Posted on March 17, 2014 by SUMPTER

in the martial month of March This Democrat paper in the Finger Lakes region sure didn’t wear rose-colored glasses as it responded to President Lincoln’s March 14, 1864 call for 200,000 more men for the military. From a Seneca County, … Continue reading →

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those slanderous, intriguing Republicans

Posted on March 15, 2014 by SUMPTER

The following two articles were part of the same clipping in the Civil War notebook at the Seneca Falls public library. The Democrat newspaper criticized some Republican journals for slandering General McClellan and admitted that General Grant might possibly have … Continue reading →

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pharisees

Posted on March 14, 2014 by SUMPTER

When I read that War is Disunion in a local Democrat editorial, I thought, wouldn’t a successful secession be disunion? Here a Republican-leaning editorial put the blame squarely south of Mason-Dixon, with a little helpo from northern doughfaces and copperheads … Continue reading →

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border fanatic

Posted on March 12, 2014 by SUMPTER

Maryland might have been a border state, bordering on Virginia, as a matter of fact, but that didn’t mean one of its representatives in the Yankee Congress couldn’t be a Blacker Republican that President Lincoln. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading →

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why they play the game

Posted on March 11, 2014 by SUMPTER

The following commentary did kind of remind me a sports radio show with the gung-ho fan calling in to support his team before the big game: there’s going to be a match up problem for the South if Bragg is … Continue reading →

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war is krewel

Posted on March 10, 2014 by SUMPTER

Well, they say that “Writing is a form of therapy” . 150 years ago today the New York 1st Veteran Cavalry’s beloved Major Jerry Sullivan was killed by John Singleton Mosby’s cavalry unit; later that very day the New York … Continue reading →

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