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Tag Archives: Nathaniel P. Banks
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In 1861 President Abraham Lincoln appointed Anson Burlingame as minister to the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912. “Burlingame worked for a cooperative policy rather than the imperialistic policies of force which had been used during the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, 150 Years Ago This Month, Foreign Relations, Postbellum Society
Tagged Anson Burlingame, Auburn (N.Y.) Prison, Auburn (New York), Burlingame Treaty, Charles Sumner, China, Chinese Embassy 1868, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Sewall Boutwell, Irvin McDowell, Lazette Miller Worden, Margaret Coffin Wright, Nathaniel P. Banks, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Qing dynasty, Susan B. Anthony, William H. Seward
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sigh of relief
A conservative, Democrat paper reprinted an article maintaining that the black troops that fought for the North at Port Hudson were not the super warriors and/or super savages that some initial reports indicated. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper … Continue reading
Killed in the Jungle
There were several engagements as Union general Nathaniel Banks led his army in a round-about way through the bayous of Louisiana to eventually get at Port Hudson on the Mississippi. I’m confused about the dates. And I was even more … Continue reading
Emancipation: the Rebels Did It
150 years ago today a Richmond newspaper printed a document issued by Nathaniel Banks, commander of the Department of the Gulf, explaining the effect of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation on the people of Louisiana. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch January … Continue reading
Nation’s Abundance, Army’s Impedimenta
Don’t be like Mac. A couple weeks after relieving the dilatory George McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac, President Lincoln advises Nathaniel Banks to stop requisitioning supplies, stop procrastinating, and get his Army of the Gulf sailing … Continue reading
All Liquored Up
New recruits from Buffalo cause havoc on a troop train; another member of an “old’ regiments dies by disease. These two quick articles were printed consecutively in the same column in a Seneca County, New York newspaper in November 1862: … 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
Papers, Rock, Scissored
We found out a couple days ago that the 19th NY Volunteer Infantry had arrived in Pleasant Valley, Maryland. General Nathaniel P. Banks, having taken command of Robert Patterson’s Union army, decided to move it north of the Potomac River. … Continue reading
Souvenirs
Making Pipes from “Sacred Soil” On July 15, 1861 New York’s 19th Regiment marched with the rest of General Robert Patterson’s Union Army to Bunker Hill, now in West Virginia. Patterson’s army was about 13 miles from Winchester, Virginia, where … Continue reading
