Category Archives: Southern Society

Pinpoint the problem

Posted on October 12, 2012 by SUMPTER

It’s not a surprise that were issues with medical care in the Confederate armies. Here the Confederate administration is asking for more specifics about bad surgeons and pointing out that disease is rampant in the Union military as well. From … Continue reading →

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Calling all men, women, and speculators!

Posted on October 9, 2012 by SUMPTER

The Army of Northern Virginia is in dire need of clothing, shoes, and blankets. By this time the North discouraged goods sent to soldiers as at best ineffectual and a logistics problem. Here a Richmond paper urges the entire Southern … Continue reading →

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The mask laid aside

Posted on September 29, 2012 by SUMPTER

A southern editorial on Abraham Lincoln’s September 22, 1862 Proclamation of Emancipation. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch September 30, 1862: Lincoln’s proclamation. The Yankee Government has at last laid aside all disguise. Lincoln openly proclaims the abolition of slavery throughout … Continue reading →

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Confederate Thanksgiving

Posted on September 18, 2012 by SUMPTER

Without a telegraph connection it took a long time for news to travel 150 years ago. I did not see an “extra”; there was not much accurate news about the Battle of Antietam in the Dispatch for a few days … Continue reading →

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Stonewall Drafted?

Posted on September 1, 2012 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times August 31, 1862: GEN. JACKSON. “Stonewall” JACKSON replied as follows to a notification that he had been made a Life Director of the Confederate States Bible Society: HEADQUARTERS VALLEY DISTRICT, VIRGINIA, July 21, 1862. Rev. E.A. … Continue reading →

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Not even good for cannon fodder?

Posted on August 22, 2012 by SUMPTER

The South doesn’t much cotton to dissenting opinions either. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 22, 1862: Arrival of Domestic Traitors. Fifteen citizens of Green county, Va., arrived here yesterday, guarded by soldiers, and were consigned to quarters in Greanor’s … Continue reading →

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Crystal Ball: Rebels Against the Despot

Posted on August 14, 2012 by SUMPTER

Political Science Fiction? A prescient book is reprinted and recommended for the well-stocked Confederate bookshelf: From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 14, 1862: A Prophetic book. Those indefatigable publishers. West & Johnston, have reproduced another book, which is having a … Continue reading →

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Counterfeit

Posted on August 6, 2012 by SUMPTER

Beet vendors beware Before the Civil War banks could issue their own notes redeemable in specie. The National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864 in the North changed that. One of the legislation’s goals was to create a national, less … Continue reading →

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From lager beer and dog-fights …

Posted on August 1, 2012 by SUMPTER

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 →

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“bodies … become offensive”

Posted on July 31, 2012 by SUMPTER

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 →

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