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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week
“an indiscriminate slaughter”
“The fort ran with blood.” From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 18, 1864: The capture of Fort Pillow Mobile, April 16. –A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register from Fort Pillow, 12th [13th?], says: Forrest attacked this place with … Continue reading
martyr on the home front
For well over a year General P. G. T. Beauregard had been in command of the successful defense of Charleston and Fort Sumter from Union assault. 150 years ago today people in Richmond could read his impassioned letter in response … Continue reading
“equal liberty before the laws”
The April 9, 1864 issue of Harper’s Weekly (at Son of the South) eulogized an abolitionist Congressman from Illinois: OWEN LOVEJOY. IN OWEN LOVEJOY the cause of Democracy loses a noble champion. From the moment that he rose from the … Continue reading
no gray area
Baltimore erupted in April 1861 as Northern troops marched through it on their way to defend the United States’ capital. Three years later, the recently appointed military commander in Baltimore apparently was trying to make it clear that he wasn’t … Continue reading
angel arguments
150 years ago today the first Constitutional step was taken to amend the Constitution regarding slavery. The United States Senate passed a resolution to make the Constitution explicitly forbid slavery throughout the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment would eventually become … Continue reading
just deserts
“Tell all my friends to come out of the woods” Regardless of how factual the following letter may have been, it would certainly seem to have had propaganda value as Confederate armies prepared for the upcoming spring campaigns. The Dispatch … Continue reading
one nation …
According to the Library of Congress, on March 26, 1864 President Lincoln met with three prominent Kentuckians who disagreed with the federal policy of recruiting Kentucky slaves for the Union army. Newspaper editor Albert G. Hodges was so impressed with … Continue reading
aiming for $1,250,000
150 years ago cities throughout the North held fairs to raise funds for the healing work of the United States Sanitary Commission. A fair opened in Brooklyn back on Washington’s birthday. 150 years ago today the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair began … Continue reading
get out the calculators
As part of the Confederate Currency Reform Act of 1864 began new money began to circulate 150 years ago this month. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 2, 1864: The New issue. –The new Treasury notes will be ready for … Continue reading
labor endorsement
From the April 2, 1864 issue of Harper’s Weekly at Son of the South: PRESIDENT LINCOLN ON THE RIGHTS OF LABOR. A Committee of the New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association waited upon the President a few days since, to … Continue reading
