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Author Archives: SUMPTER
buried treasure
As the Confederate economy was increasingly squeezed Southerners had to make due with less and come up with creative product substitutes. 150 years ago today evidence was published of another way to find supplies – digging up the graves of … Continue reading
price ceilings sound great
experience shows they don’t work out In last week’s post about price controls and the money supply I focused on the money printing. However, the price control part of the Richmond editorial was apparently alluding to a “maximum bill” to … Continue reading
“marred in the transmission”
President Davis got out of the office for a bit in October 1863 and toured South Carolina, Georgia, and General Bragg’s recently victorious Army of Tennessee on Missionary Ridge outside Chattanooga. Here’s a report that focuses on his speech to … Continue reading
unquenchable
Hey, we got a Union to save. From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six: CALL FOR 300,000 VOLUNTEERS, OCTOBER 17, 1863. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation. Whereas the term of service … Continue reading
John Henry
From back in the day when an army traveled with their servants, here’s a photo said to be from October 1863 of John Henry, a servant in the Army of the Potomac’s 3d Corps.
nursing the wounded
Yesterday while I was doing a little exploring at the Library of Congress, I discovered the image to the left of Walt Whitman, said to be “taken from life” in 1863 (apparently by Alexander Gardner). I read a few of … Continue reading
Sickles’ turn at bat?
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
“Be he miser or patriot”
Here’s an example of an individual state trying to deal with the Confederacy’s rapid increase in the money supply. The Virginia Legislature was working on a scheme that would allow the national government to slow the printing of money by … Continue reading
live free or riot
From the October 11, 1863 issue of The New-York Times: Draft Riot in New-Hampshire. ATTEMPT TO BURN A DRAFT OFFICER. GREAT FALLS, N.H., Saturday, Oct. 10. A mob at Jackson in this State, on Thursday night, burned the hotel where … Continue reading
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job security
According to a chart published in the October 5, 2013 issue of The Economist, 80% of the U.S. Treasury workforce was furloughed during the government shutdown in 2013. However, “Money printers/engravers” were kept hard at it. We sure can relate … Continue reading
