Tag Archives: Ulysses S. Grant

potpourri

Posted on March 27, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this month a grab bag of miscellaneous news was dominated by the war. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1864: News Miscellany. No less than 500 of our prisoners in Richmond died during February. … Continue reading →

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those slanderous, intriguing Republicans

Posted on March 15, 2014 by SUMPTER

The following two articles were part of the same clipping in the Civil War notebook at the Seneca Falls public library. The Democrat newspaper criticized some Republican journals for slandering General McClellan and admitted that General Grant might possibly have … Continue reading →

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why they play the game

Posted on March 11, 2014 by SUMPTER

The following commentary did kind of remind me a sports radio show with the gung-ho fan calling in to support his team before the big game: there’s going to be a match up problem for the South if Bragg is … Continue reading →

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threats north and west

Posted on March 8, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today General Meade, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, was concerned about the Committee on the Conduct of the War, which was investigating his performance at and after Gettysburg. Moreover, General Grant, the new overall … Continue reading →

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objects lesson

Posted on January 1, 2014 by SUMPTER

In the first month of the new year a conservative editorial from a Democrat paper in the Finger Lakes region of New York State objected to what it saw as the war aims of the Lincoln administration -emancipation, increasing national … Continue reading →

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Hoosier press

Posted on December 19, 2013 by SUMPTER

death and taxes … and politics? From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Seven: TELEGRAM TO GENERAL U.S. GRANT. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, December 19, 1863. GENERAL GRANT, Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Indiana delegation in Congress, or at least a … Continue reading →

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“glorious victory”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by SUMPTER

The only extant cutting in the Seneca Falls, New York library’s big notebook of Civil War local newspaper clippings regarding the late November battles around Chattanooga is a reproduction of General Montgomery C. Meigs’ official report to Secretary of War … Continue reading →

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fulcrum point?

Posted on November 16, 2013 by SUMPTER

Ever more Yankees, including General Grant, were concentrating at Chattanooga. This Richmond editorial knew the North was going to attack and hoped that if the South won it would break “the backbone of the war.” Otherwise, “the South will be … Continue reading →

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Granted …

Posted on August 15, 2013 by SUMPTER

A Yankee general who could exploit the odds in his favor From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 14, 1863: Gen Grant. Military merit is so rare among the Yankee Generals that we are not at all surprised by the excessive … Continue reading →

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generally speaking

Posted on July 29, 2013 by SUMPTER

The Commander-in-Chief manages some of his generals. From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six: To GENERAL G. G. MEADE. (Private.) EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 27, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE: I have not thrown General Hooker away; and therefore … Continue reading →

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