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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week
Telegraph Roadies
From The New-York Times January 3, 1862: IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON; … ARMY TELEGRAPHS. … … WASHINGTON, Thursday, Jan. 2. … The Army Telegraph Corps have returned from Hancock, having completed telegraphic connection between Frederick and Wheeling. They will next proceed … Continue reading
Mrs. Wigfall Makes a Flag
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 31, 1861: Singular State flag. –The flag of the Texas camp, at Camp Wigfall, near Dumfries, Va., is made of the bridal dress of Mrs. Wigfall. Says the correspondent of the Austin Gazette: It … Continue reading
Relative Quiet in York County
Some Christmas Eve southern patriotism from the Virtus correspondent of the Dispatch. Virtus does not think there will be any general advance on up the Peninsula because it is too well defended and because the Yankees seemed to be too … Continue reading
Send Us Your Negroes
It’s the time of year when many agents are trying to drum up business for the new year. The following is the lead notice of several that are advertising the hiring out of negroes. I’m guessing, but apparently these agents … Continue reading
Using Oil As a Weapon
It didn’t take long. In 1859 Edwin Laurentine Drake successfully drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania. 150 years ago this week there was at least speculation about possible destructive uses of the material that was becoming more and more available. … Continue reading
No Wake for Finegan?
A Christmas Killing A Seneca County, New York newspaper in January, 1862 included this Boxing Day letter home: From the Thirty-Third Regiment CAMP GRIFFIN, 33D REGIMENT, Co. K. Dec. 26, 1861. I improve the opportunity of writing you this morning. … Continue reading
Talking Strategy for Christmas
A Seneca County, New York newspaper in January, 1862 included this Christmas Day letter home: From South Carolina A letter from Beaufort, S.C., dated the 25th ultimo, and written by a brother of one of the editors of this paper, … Continue reading
At Camp Near Bladensburg
Christmas Festivities: Chasing a pig … and a pigskin? Through the haze of 150 years it’s kind of hard to make everything out. You can read the description at the Library of Congress. There’s information here that Camp Union was … Continue reading
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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like …
Plenty of Time to Decorate Camp In Lieu of General Advance South Captain Guion of Company A, New York 33rd Infantry Regiment describes his quarters, the regiment’s decorating mission, the 25 mile front, and the regiment’s non-fighting role during the … Continue reading
Confederate Air Force?
Nascent B-52 About 12 and a half years ago I took a boat tour in Chattanooga. The guide said that the blue herons on the Tennessee River were referred to as the “Confederate Air Force”. Whoever came up with the … Continue reading
