Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week

News from 150 years ago

Maple Leaf down

Posted on April 1, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today: “The Federal army transport Maple Leaf strikes a Confederate torpedo in the St. John’s River, Florida, and sinks off Mandarin Point” Here’s how folks in Richmond got the news. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 6, … Continue reading →

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out with a lion

Posted on March 31, 2014 by SUMPTER

Many of the articles in the Seneca Falls public library notebook of Civil War clippings have the month and year handwritten in ink on them. The following has the complete date. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper on March … Continue reading →

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civil war

Posted on March 26, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today a Southern newspaper looked to the American Revolutionary War to find a general who knew the polite way to wage a war of subjugation. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 26, 1864: Two extracts from revolutionary … Continue reading →

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Mr. Fillmore’s view

Posted on March 25, 2014 by SUMPTER

In addition to New York City and Albany, Buffalo opened a fair on Washington’s Birthday in 1864. 150 years ago today a Richmond newspaper published some of Millard Fillmore’s remarks. Mr. Fillmore thought the rebel army should be destroyed with … Continue reading →

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snowball’s chance in Dalton?

Posted on March 22, 2014 by SUMPTER

Pretty good in March 1864: It is written: “On rare occasions it snowed and like children released from school, the troops treated any snowfall as an occasion for play. On March 22 dawn revealed a fresh 5 inches of new … Continue reading →

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pledge passive allegiance?

Posted on March 21, 2014 by SUMPTER

After endorsing B.F. Butler for the United States presidency because he was the biggest thief among the candidates, the Richmond Daily Dispatch of March 21, 1864 published the following exchange of letters between General Butler and a Virginia schoolteacher: Butler … Continue reading →

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crucible

Posted on March 19, 2014 by admin

A southern editorial on how war reveals a person’s true character. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 19, 1864: Demoralization. We hear a great deal about the demoralizing effects of the war in the United States and in the Confederacy. … Continue reading →

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more men for Mars

Posted on March 17, 2014 by SUMPTER

in the martial month of March This Democrat paper in the Finger Lakes region sure didn’t wear rose-colored glasses as it responded to President Lincoln’s March 14, 1864 call for 200,000 more men for the military. From a Seneca County, … Continue reading →

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those slanderous, intriguing Republicans

Posted on March 15, 2014 by SUMPTER

The following two articles were part of the same clipping in the Civil War notebook at the Seneca Falls public library. The Democrat newspaper criticized some Republican journals for slandering General McClellan and admitted that General Grant might possibly have … Continue reading →

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pharisees

Posted on March 14, 2014 by SUMPTER

When I read that War is Disunion in a local Democrat editorial, I thought, wouldn’t a successful secession be disunion? Here a Republican-leaning editorial put the blame squarely south of Mason-Dixon, with a little helpo from northern doughfaces and copperheads … Continue reading →

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