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Author Archives: SUMPTER
“Pie women and Apple boys”
Those magnetic greenbacks. The New York First Veteran Cavalry left the state without being paid the state bounty. As SENECA reported, that act of faith was rewarded 150 years ago today. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1863: … Continue reading
the great punkin
From Harper’s Weekly October 31, 1863 (at Son of the South): Exiled Copperhead Clement Vallandigham was the Democrat nominee for Ohio governor in 1863, even though he was living in exile in Canada. He lost the election by a sizable … Continue reading
trick or treat
You can read about this 1862 political carton at the Library of Congress. After being caned by Preston Brooks in the U.S. Senate in May 1856, Charles Sumner needed over three years to be able to fully recover from the … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Society, Southern Society
Tagged abolitionists, Charles Sumner, preferential treatment, Slavery
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sick and beyond sick
Back in August Dr. Charles Hoyt wrote a letter praising the valor of the New York 126th’s color bearers’ at Gettysburg. The surgeon caught a fever and had to come home to recuperate. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper … Continue reading
“monstrous fraud and swindle”
The New-York Times saw the state election in November 1863 as a chance for voters to express their support for the Lincoln election and its vigorous prosecution of the war. A Democrat paper in upstate New York saw a vote … Continue reading
Tredegar still hiring
Big surprise – the South’s war economy is still going great guns. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch October 28, 1863: Wanted–1,000 negroes. –We wish to hire for the year 1864, one thousand Negroes, to be employed at the Tredegar Iron … Continue reading
just a manpower issue
From The New-York Times October 28, 1863: Another Speech by Major-Gen. Rosecrans. CINCINNATI, Tuesday, Oct. 27. Gen. ROSECRANS, in a speech at the Merchants’ Exchange yesterday, where he was most enthusiastically received, said, it was his firm belief that if … Continue reading
veteran foragers make it to DC
The 1st New York Veteran Cavalry Regiment had been pretty much recruited. 150 years ago this week a large contingent traveled to the Washington, D.C. area. In a strange kind of time warp our SENECA correspondent said the regiment left … Continue reading
satire is the best medicine
A New York paper says it is republishing an article from a Richmond newspaper, no date given, that comments on worsening conditions in the Confederacy. How do you house and feed three million people in the Southern capital? The writer … Continue reading
black gold
Inflation in the Confederacy wasn’t just wreaking havoc on prices for basic needs like flour. Slave prices were at their highest ever in Richmond. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch October 24, 1863: High prices. –The highest prices yet paid for … Continue reading
