Tag Archives: Richmond Daily Dispatch

’cause the framers punted

Posted on December 9, 2015 by SUMPTER

After an eight month hiatus, the Richmond Daily Dispatch resumed publication 150 years ago today (albeit with no runaway slave classifieds): Saturday…december 9, 1865. The past and the present. The Richmond Dispatch, which met a temporary suspension of its existence … Continue reading →

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banner headline

Posted on April 30, 2015 by SUMPTER

Another pleasing coincidence, given that I took the Richmond Daily Dispatch for fours years, until earlier this month. During the federal occupation of Richmond the Confederate flag flying over the newspaper’s office was captured and brought north to Rochester, New … Continue reading →

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this is the end … (apr)

Posted on April 3, 2015 by SUMPTER

Another Monday morning in Richmond. Another pugnacious editorial from the Daily Dispatch? No, as the paper explained eight months later, it went temporarily out of business 150 years ago today as Richmond burned and the Union army entered the city. … Continue reading →

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‘vacant chair’ Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2014 by SUMPTER

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 24, 1864: Saturday morning….December 24, 1864. Christmas. Christmas has come again, and though shorn of some of its old accessories of feasts and frolics, it is Christmas still in all that constitutes its essential … Continue reading →

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“though partially successful failed”

Posted on September 30, 2014 by SUMPTER

The September 29, 1864 Union attack at Chaffin’s Farm was audible in Richmond. The Richmond Daily Dispatch was not published on September 30th because Virginia Governor William “Extra Billy” Smith ordered the newspaper’s employees to militia duty on the 29th. … Continue reading →

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foreign analogies

Posted on March 3, 2014 by SUMPTER

The Richmond Dispatch often looked at different countries and different eras for examples to fire up its readership in the South’s struggle for independence. Here the editors looked across the Atlantic for commentary on who would be selected as the … Continue reading →

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patriotic rags

Posted on April 24, 2013 by SUMPTER

and earn a good (Confederate) dollar 150 years ago this week a Richmond newspaper was offering top dollar for the material necessary for its publication. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 22, 1863: Rags! Rags!! Rags!!! –The highest market price … Continue reading →

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Let them read papers

Posted on April 2, 2013 by SUMPTER

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch April 2, 1863: Give your child a Newspaper. –A child beginning to read becomes delighted with a newspapers, because he reads of names and things which are very familiar, and will make progress accordingly. A … Continue reading →

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Viva La Vega

Posted on June 21, 2012 by SUMPTER

Like Napoleon at Elba Even with over 100,000 Yankees a few miles away, it wasn’t all war news in the Confederate capital. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch June 21, 1862: Illustrating the Benefits of advertising. –Mr. George Horton, who lives … Continue reading →

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(Our) jobs depend on it!

Posted on June 18, 2012 by SUMPTER

Rags for Rags? From the Richmond Daily Dispatch June 18, 1862: Rags and raw cotton Wanted. The paper mill in this city, now our sole dependence for a supply of printing paper, is very much in want of material for … Continue reading →

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