Tag Archives: Joseph Hooker

Wily Yankee Propaganda?

Posted on April 23, 2013 by SUMPTER

Here a Richmond paper tries to make sense of various prognostications coming out of the Northern press. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 22, 1863: The wait and Watch System. Several Federal journals intimate that no active hostilities on their … Continue reading →

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“General of pluck”

Posted on March 7, 2013 by SUMPTER

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 7, 1863: The condition of the Army of the Potomac. A letter in the New York Tribune dated from the Army of the Potomac, gives a description of the working of matters there at … Continue reading →

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Burned up

Posted on January 29, 2013 by SUMPTER

A Democrat publication in western New York state uses Ambrose Burnside’s resignation from command of the Army of the Potomac as reason to launch another tirade against the Lincoln Administration. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1863: Resignation … Continue reading →

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