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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Week
From lager beer and dog-fights …
To oppressing the good people of Norfolk I really can’t believe everything I read in the newspaper anymore: apparently there was not as much Union sentiment in Norfolk as a previous article indicated. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 31, … Continue reading
“bodies … become offensive”
Wait for cold weather, please From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 31, 1862: Disinterment of dead bodies. We daily observe at the railway stations boxes containing the bodies of deceased soldiers, which have been disinterred by their friends, under the … Continue reading
TYPO from Bachelor’s Creek
Union “soldier mob” demolishes rebel shooter buildings; detachment sent to clean out guerrilla band. The 19th New York Volunteer Infantry completed its conversion to the 3rd New York Artillery and arrived in North Carolina in the spring of 1862. Here’s … Continue reading
Hanging Professor
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 28, 1862: Guerrillas hung –General Fitch, late Senator from Indian[a], now leading a brigade at St. Charles, in Arkansas, has just hung two guerrillas, in pursuance of pledges to do so in case of … Continue reading
Methodist Parson Takes Command
150 years ago this week the Dispatch printed a bio of the new Union general-in-chief. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 28, 1862: The New Federal Commander-in-chief. Henry Wager Halleck is one the four Major-Generals who were first appointed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Wager Halleck, San Francisco
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Government Stimulus
Talk about Big Sibling … here a newspaper seems to have a real good idea of exactly how much money is being sent home by local soldiers in the 33rd New York Volunteers. From a Seneca Falls, New York newspaper … Continue reading
Death of a Free Soiler
150 years ago yesterday Martin Van Buren died at the age of 79. He was the first president who was not born a British subject. He began his political career as a Democrat and served in Andrew Jackson’s administration as … Continue reading
Pristine Farm Stands Out Like Sore Thumb
Well, Mr. Dudley can’t sell liquor anymore. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 21, 1862: A Richmond merchant arrested for alleged disloyalty. –Mr. T. Dudley, Jr., the well known liquor merchant, who formerly did business on the North side of … Continue reading
Can’t bomb them into submission
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch July 21, 1862: Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, Opposed to a war of subjugation. Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, has written a remarkable letter to the Hartford Times condemning the use of his name as a Vice … Continue reading
The Taxmen Searcheth
This cartoon, which you can read more about at the Library of Congress, was published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper on July 19, 1862. It referred to the Tax Act of July 1862. From the National Archives: To fund the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, American Culture, Northern Society
Tagged Tax Act of 1862, taxation
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