Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week

News from 150 years ago

Let them read papers

Posted on April 2, 2013 by SUMPTER

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 2, 1863: Give your child a Newspaper. –A child beginning to read becomes delighted with a newspapers, because he reads of names and things which are very familiar, and will make progress accordingly. A … Continue reading →

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DC Union meeting

Posted on April 1, 2013 by SUMPTER

150 years ago yesterday a big Union rally was held in the federal Capitol. Andrew Johnson made an impassioned speech with President Lincoln looking on. Green Adams, a native of the president’s old home of Kentucky, agreed that the Administration … Continue reading →

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Hold Fast

Posted on March 30, 2013 by SUMPTER

The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six, by Abraham Lincoln at Project Gutenberg PROCLAMATION APPOINTING A NATIONAL FAST-DAY. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation. March 30, 1863. Whereas the Senate of the United … Continue reading →

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Death of General Sumner

Posted on March 21, 2013 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1863: Death of Gen. Sumner. Major General EDWIN V. SUMNER died at the residence of his son-in-law at Syracuse, on Saturday morning March 21st, at the advanced age of 67 years. … Continue reading →

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Unionists of New York

Posted on March 20, 2013 by SUMPTER

It’s not all Copperheads and treason in March 1863, and the Conscription Act has yet to be implemented. From The New-York Times March 20, 1863: Another Union Demonstration. Every few days now, we have a grand popular demonstration in behalf … Continue reading →

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Election in Fredericksburg

Posted on March 18, 2013 by SUMPTER

Americans are fortunate that we mostly have “free and fair” elections. 150 years ago yesterday the people of Fredericksburg, Virginia apparently relied on Confederate troops to ensure that the Yankees on the other side of the Rappahannock did not try … Continue reading →

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Smoke-free Confederacy

Posted on March 15, 2013 by SUMPTER

After claiming that the Press only has the public good in mind (as opposed to power hungry politicians), this Richmond paper urges southern farmers to give up tobacco and cotton cultivation so that the land can be used exclusively to … Continue reading →

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“Sedition made Easy”

Posted on March 14, 2013 by SUMPTER

This attack on traitorous Copperheads has a good summary of the Constitutional justification for the three laws passed by the 37th Congress that gave a great deal of power to the Executive branch. From The New-York Times March 11, 1863: … Continue reading →

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Shrieks and Moans in Richmond

Posted on March 13, 2013 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today an explosion killed at least forty workers, mostly women, at the Confederate Ordnance Laboratory on Brown’s Island, Richmond. It is pointed out that this event shows the wartime need for female industrial workers since so many … Continue reading →

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can’t carry a tune

Posted on March 12, 2013 by SUMPTER

Like a song I can’t get out of my head, I just can’t seem to let go this statement about March 7, 1863: Federal troops in Baltimore, Maryland, confiscate all song sheets that are deemed “secession music.” I have not … Continue reading →

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