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Tag Archives: George Henry Thomas
Old Pap gone
I first knew of him as “The Rock of Chickamauga.” In September 1863 Union General George H. Thomas and his men held off the Confederate Army of Tennessee while about a third of the Union Army of the Cumberland was … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Veterans
Tagged Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Nashville, David E. Twiggs, Felix Zollicoffer, George Henry Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, John Bell Hood, Philip St. George Cooke, Stewart Lyndon Woodford, William Croswell Doane, William Rosecrans
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odds-making
150 years ago today black men voted for the first time in Tennessee. Ex-Confederates were still prohibited from voting. Republican Governor William G. Brownlow (Parson Brownlow) was re-elected by a large majority. From The New-York Times August 2, 1867: THE … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged black suffrage, George Henry Thomas, Gideon Johnson Pillow, Joseph Alexander Cooper, proscription policy (ex-Confederate proscription), Reconstruction, Tennessee, Ulysses S. Grant, William Gannaway Brownlow
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the five commandants
Pursuant to the first Reconstruction Act enacted in early March 1867, President Andrew Johnson was required to appoint a district commander for each of the five military districts that divided up the South. On March 11th the president appointed Generals … Continue reading
shaming the abolitionists?
A Democrat publication wondered why, if over two million adult men voted for President Lincoln’s re-election, the President had to threaten a draft to come up with 300,000 more soldiers. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1864 or … Continue reading
2 + 2
As Democrat paper in the Finger Lakes region of New York State absorbed a couple of the significant events that occurred 150 years this week – the Union victory at Nashville and President Lincoln’s call for 300,000 more volunteers – … Continue reading
“virtual defeat”
A Democrat-leaning publication in upstate New York was skeptical about claims of a Union victory at the Battle of Franklin. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in December 1864: The Battle at Franklin. The battle of Franklin, Tenn., on … Continue reading
“glorious victory”
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
virtual defeat
or virtual victory? I think I gave in to a little Yankee arrogance the other day when I noticed that Richmond seemed more in the dark about the battle at Chickamauga than the North. The New York Times apparently had … Continue reading
St. Benedict (Arnold)
I don’t want to minimize the Civil War, but this story reminds me of modern sports fans trying to come to grips with losses by their favorite sports teams. How could it be? Here a southern newspaper deals with the … Continue reading
Surrounded at Hyattstown
The last we saw of the 19th NY Volunteer Infantry it was encamped at Pleasant Valley, Maryland as part of General Banks’ army. During the month of August there was some grumbling in the 19th. Initially they had assumed that … Continue reading
