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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week
harbor fire
During The American Civil War Fort Lafayette in New York harbor was used to lock up political prisoners. 150 years ago today a fire burned a good deal of the fort – an estimated $100,000 worth. The December 19, 1868 … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath
Tagged Fort Lafayette, Francis P. Blair Sr.
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holiday for the homes
In October 1868 President Andrew Johnson proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving on November 26th, the last Thursday of the month. This continued a tradition begun five years earlier by Abraham Lincoln. In its November 28, 1868 issue Harper’s Weekly … Continue reading
marching orders
On November 3, 1868 Republican candidate Ulysses S. Grant was elected President of the United States. He garnered about 300,000 more votes than his Democratic challenger Horatio Seymour. In the electoral college he won 214 votes compared to 80 for … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The election of 1868
Tagged black suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gerrit Smith, Harriet Powell, Millerites, The election of 1868, Theodore Dwight Weld, Ulysses S. Grant, universal suffrage
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Sedgwick statue dedicated
According to Harper’s Weekly, 150 years ago today a statue of Union General John Sedgwick was dedicated at West Point. At least as of 2008 the monument was still standing. ________________________ John Sedgwick was killed at Spotsylvania on May 9, … Continue reading
tsunami?
On October 13, 1868 voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana elected Republicans in state races by substantial margins. The Democrats were reportedly in such deep distress that they considered replacing Horatio Seymour as their nominee for the U.S. Presidency, possibly … Continue reading
R.I.I.P.
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom. – Thaddeus Stevens, 1837 … Continue reading
Boston at New York
From my growing up I had heard about Zouave units associated with the American Civil War but didn’t know much more about it. According to Wikipedia it wasn’t until 1859 that Zouaves were brought to the American public attention when … Continue reading
death down south
In early June 1868 two black men fought a duel in South Carolina; one of the men was mortally wounded. A northern editorial thought that duels in general were absurd, tragic, and barbaric, but saw this particular duel as a … Continue reading
decorating the mounds
Civil War general John A. Logan has been in the news a lot lately. As a Representative from Illinois he was one of seven House managers during the Impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. The U.S. Senate eventually acquitted the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Veterans
Tagged Ambrose Everett Burnside, Arlington House, Arlington National Cemetery, Charles Parsons, Civil War Unknowns Monument, Cypress Hill Cemetery, Frederick W. Lander, Grand Army of the Republic, James Garfield, John Alexander Logan, Memorial (Decoration) Day, Ulysses S. Grant, Winfield Scott Hancock
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Johnson acquitted
Spiro Agnew must have seemed like a godsend to our high school Latin teacher. When Vice-president Agnew got into some difficulties with the law in 1973 he eventually resigned from office after pleading no contest, or in Latin nolo contendere, … Continue reading
