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Author Archives: SUMPTER
life insurance on property
An advertisement from the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 28, 1863: Slave Insurance Lynchburg Hose and fire Insurance Company. Slaves insured by this company for one or a term of years on favorable terms Wm A Charters, Increase Agent. Office 11th … Continue reading
riddle me this
The Christmastime issue of Harper’s was full of “Humors of the Day.” Here’s a couple of examples. From the December 26, 1863 issue of Harper’s Weekly at Son of the South: What’s the use of a seat of war to … Continue reading
death by cracked skull
You could get killed in battle; you could die a slow, lingering death from your battle wounds or from disease; or a horse could fall on you and crack your skull. That’s what happened to General Michael Corcoran on December … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Military Matters
Tagged Irish Brigade, Irish Immigrants, Michael Corcoran
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merry Christmas?
For a time when I was growing up I loved playing and playing Christmas records on our family’s hi-fi – day after day throughout pre-Christmas December. I especially remember a couple of the W.T. Grant’s “A Very Merry Christmas” albums … Continue reading
the ball was up
Emancipation was the word in 1863. The NY Times was pleased to see women skating expertly, not needing to be accompanied by men. From The New-York Times December 24, 1863: Skating on Central Park Lakes and Fifth-avenue and Other Ponds. … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Northern Society
Tagged Central Park, Christmas, skating
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enemies among us
A Richmond editorial found it very suspicious that 400 paroled Yankee prisoners would choose to stay in Richmond instead of heading north back to the Union’s relative abundance. If organized they could kidnap Jefferson Davis. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading
credit the ranks
It had been quite a twelve months for Ambrose Burnside – getting whipped at Fredericksburg, the Mud March, Clement Vallandigham, Knoxville. General Burnside and his troops managed to hang on to Knoxville for the Union. After John Foster replaced him … Continue reading
just “a tithe of the patriotism”
As the main armies in the Virginia Theater retired to winter quarters, a Richmond paper’s “X” correspondent reported from the Army of Northern Virginia. The troops were pretty well fed and clothed but still lack blankets. The reporter believed this … Continue reading
Hoosier press
death and taxes … and politics? From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Seven: TELEGRAM TO GENERAL U.S. GRANT. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, December 19, 1863. GENERAL GRANT, Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Indiana delegation in Congress, or at least a … Continue reading
celebrity autograph
Here’s some evidence that 150 years ago today exiled Copperhead Clement L. Vallandigham responded to a request for support of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. In lauding the commission’s work Mr. Vallandigham did a pretty thorough job cataloging the horrors or … Continue reading
