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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week
Snowed
The New-York Times was published on this date 150 years ago before word got back North that General McClellan had been relieved of command. It seems ironic that for all the general’s dilly-dallying (from President Lincoln’s perspective), the lead headline … Continue reading
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Salty Home Alabama
War crisis requires more state power 150 years yesterday a Richmond newspaper reported on a message Alabama’s governor gave to the state legislature. The main points were 1) impress slave labor to fortify the state boundaries 2) the state government … Continue reading
Greenhide
A Mobile newspaper published some advice for self-help as the South was trying to deal with the economic issues caused by secession, the blockade, and the huge demands of the army for men and material. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading
boom! boom!
Get the gun out! On November 4, 1862, election day in many states, the Democrat party enjoyed good results in New York state, most notably with the election of Horatio Seymour as governor. Here’s a couple clippings from one or … Continue reading
The Union = The Almighty Dollar
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch November 4, 1862: Deifying the Dollar. The Union is only another name with the North for the Dollar. It is the Almighty Dollar which they worship, and the Union is only its [o]utward symbol and … Continue reading
Just us and the Yankees
Richmond Rhetoric: don’t have false confidence in foreign intervention Recently The Civil War 150th Blog posted that in October 1862 France’s Napoleon III proposed that European powers intervene in the Civil War with diplomacy – getting both North and South … Continue reading
Orator declines with just a paragraph
A laconic Edward Everett? From the Richmond Daily Dispatch November 1, 1862: Edward Everett. –Edward Everett having been requested to accept the Republican nomination in the Third Congressional District of Massachusetts, has replied in the following letter: “Summer Street, Oct. … Continue reading
Mobilizing the base
November 4, 1862 was election day in New York State. Here a Democrat-oriented newspaper is firing up its readers for the final few days of the campaign. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1862: Onward! Right Onward! FELLOW … Continue reading
Unconditionally prostrate
Son of the South provides an excellent service by hosting the digitized Harper’s Weekly from 1861-65. Here’s a couple political cartoons published in the October 25, 1862 issue. They comment on the upcoming election for New York State governor on … Continue reading
Any day now
Civil War Daily Gazette has been doing a great job giving us the interplay between President Lincoln and General McClellan as the president tries to gently goad his general into getting the army south of the Potomac and attacking the … Continue reading
