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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week
disruptive
150 years ago this week a Northern newspaper reprinted a report it found in a Petersburg, Virginia newspaper. A city that began the year under siege was trying to adjust to the huge change in the economic-social system caused by … Continue reading
elective*
This Thomas Nast cartoon was published in the August 5, 1865 issue of Harper’s Weekly. You can read more about it at the Library of Congress: “Centerfold prints show Columbia considering why she should pardon Confederate troops who are begging … Continue reading
new American revolution?
In a long 1777 letter to the Committee of Secret Correspondence Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, American Commissioners in Paris, wrote the following optimistic assessment of Europe’s regard for America and its rebel cause: Tyranny is so generally established in … Continue reading
tech times
150 years ago today The New-York Times headlined some remarkable technology. The world’s largest ironclad was launched three months after the Civil War ended, and some people imagined trains running up in the air over Broadway. The USS Dunderberg was … Continue reading
“boots and saddles” no more
From the Seneca County Courier July 13, 1865: LETTER FROM A SENECA FALLS SOLDIER-BOY. The following interesting letter is from a native of this town, who was among the very first to respond to the President’s first call for Volunteers … Continue reading
“devout joy at the salvation of the country”
From The New-York Times July 6, 1865: THE CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE DAY. The observance of the National Anniversary was characterized everywhere throughout the country by a sober heartiness and earnest enthusiasm, in perfect keeping with the peculiarities of the occasion. … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Northern Society, Reconstruction, Veterans
Tagged 148th New York Infantry Regiment, 15th New York Engineer Regiment, 3rd New York Volunteer Artillery, 50th New York Engineer Regiment, 8th New York Cavalry Regiment, battle monuments, Daniel Butterfield, Daniel Sickles, Declaration of Independence, George Murray Guion, Independence Day, John B. Murray, Reconstruction, returning veterans, Slavery, Ulysses S. Grant, Zalmon A. Disbrow
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“noble devotion”
From The New-York Times June 30, 1865: ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.; Maj.-Gen. Meade’s Farewell Order. WASHINGTON, Thursday, June 29. The farewell order of Gen. MEADE is published. It is as follows: HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 28, … Continue reading
all over the space …
and the time Back on the day, I was absorbed in my own mini-liberation from almost-daily war posting. Here is General Gordon Granger’s June 19, 1865 order at Galveston Texas as the Unio army took control: General Order No. 3 … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, The election of 1860, Veterans
Tagged 1860 Election, 19th NY Volunteer Infantry, 3rd New York Volunteer Artillery, CSS Shenandoah, James Hewett Ledlie, James Iredell Waddell, John S. Clark, Juneteenth, Reuben Eaton Fenton
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my only friend …
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in June 1865: The Papers. The war is over! and yet we hardly appreciate the fact. We have become so accustomed to look for and read attentively the details of battles, that the … Continue reading
