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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week
Big Demand for Saltpetre
Here a Richmond, Virginia newspaper from 150 years ago sees the Union blockade that is limiting Confederate access to gunpowder as another blessing in disguise because it will help the South be more self-reliant. Also, Confederate citizens will have a … Continue reading
“stripped off his stripes”
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 7, 1862: Spirited Texan ladies. –The “Bell County Rebels,” from Belton, Bell county, Texas, started for their rendezvous, Hempstead, some time ago, when one of their Lieutenants, James F. Hardin, a lawyer, deserted and … Continue reading
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“will this do to kill a Yankee?”
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 6, 1862: Return of arms. –As we predicted in our notice, under the head of “Arming the People,” the Ordnance Department of Virginia. corner of 7th and Cary streets, was crowded yesterday with our … Continue reading
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Lemonade Factory
thank goodness for malaria and bad roads and the loss of Nashville and … From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 5, 1862: The Prospect ahead. The public mind of the entire South is fast recovering from the causeless panic occasioned … Continue reading
Moses Preaches in Richmond
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 3, 1862: An immense prayer meeting. –Never in the history of Richmond was so large an assembly convened for prayer as that which took place at the First Baptist Church Friday afternoon. By four … Continue reading
President Seward?
From The New-York Times March 1, 1862: Mr. Seward and the Next Presidency. Mr. SEWARD having been informed of the existence of a club in Philadelphia, the purpose of which was to nominate him for the next Presidency, sent the … Continue reading
Nashville in Confederate Hands???
The same week that the city of Nashville fell to Union forces the CSS Nashville successfully ran the blockade after a trip to England. Apparently Captain Robert Baker Pegram used some deception to evade the blockading ship off the North … Continue reading
Jeff’s Doing It, Too
Suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus From the Richmond Daily Dispatch February 28, 1862: By the President of the Confederate States of America. a proclamation. Whereas, the Congress of the Confederate States has by law vested in the President the power … Continue reading
His Company Torn to Shreds
From The New-York Times February 26, 1862: THE SAD SIDE OF THE PICTURE. FORT DONELSON, TENN., Monday, Feb. 17, 1862. The following private letter, written by a former attache of the New-York Post-office, presents another side of the victory gained … Continue reading
Contraband Needs in South Carolina
Overseers and Durable Clothing Union military success along the South Carolina coast created a logistics problem for General Thomas W. Sherman and Commodore Samuel F. Du Pont – as plantation owners have fled, thousands of slaves are looking for help … Continue reading
