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Custer vs. Black Kettle
From the December 19, 1868 issue of Harper’s Weekly: THE INDIAN WAR. GENERAL SHERIDAN has conceived a plan of Indian warfare which will yield substantial results. General SHERMAN’S report to the War Department from St. Louis, on the 2d instant, … Continue reading
harbor fire
During The American Civil War Fort Lafayette in New York harbor was used to lock up political prisoners. 150 years ago today a fire burned a good deal of the fort – an estimated $100,000 worth. The December 19, 1868 … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath
Tagged Fort Lafayette, Francis P. Blair Sr.
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holiday for the homes
In October 1868 President Andrew Johnson proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving on November 26th, the last Thursday of the month. This continued a tradition begun five years earlier by Abraham Lincoln. In its November 28, 1868 issue Harper’s Weekly … Continue reading
“the greatest of all human Blessings”
Independence and Peace 150 years ago Americans observed the national Thanksgiving Day on November 26th. I don’t seem to be able to wait that long. According to Pilgrim Hall Museum Congress proclaimed the first National Thanksgiving Day on November 1, … Continue reading
dark deed in broad daylight
In mid-October 1868 The New-York Times reported that Benjamin F. Randolph, a black clergyman and Republican state legislator, was murdered in South Carolina. In its November 21, 1868 issue, Harper’s Weekly reprinted the report of a Charleston newspaper: MURDER OF … Continue reading
at last
According to History of the World War, by Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish (1919), American commanders ordered their troops to remain all business the morning before the firing ceased on the Western Front. The last action of the … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, Veterans, World War I
Tagged armistice, Armistice Day, Grand Army of the Republic, Veteran's Day, World War I
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marching orders
On November 3, 1868 Republican candidate Ulysses S. Grant was elected President of the United States. He garnered about 300,000 more votes than his Democratic challenger Horatio Seymour. In the electoral college he won 214 votes compared to 80 for … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The election of 1868
Tagged black suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gerrit Smith, Harriet Powell, Millerites, The election of 1868, Theodore Dwight Weld, Ulysses S. Grant, universal suffrage
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election primer
150 years ago the presidential election in the United States was to be held on November 3rd. According to documentation at the Library of Congress, sometime during the campaign the Union Republican Congressional Committee published an election guide for the … Continue reading
September surprise?
Democratic politician John Dix was a Union general during the Civil War and in 1868 was serving as American Minister to France. In early September he sent a letter to friend in New York City. Mr. Dix wanted to deny … Continue reading
rigging vigorously
150 years ago this month three New York City newspapers published reports of alleged voter fraud. It seems that the October 10, 1868 issue of Harper’s Weekly is saying that the legal process of naturalization was being corrupted by men … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The election of 1868
Tagged Benjamin B. Rosenberg, election rigging, John Thompson Hoffman, naturalization mill, New York City, Robert Murray U.S. Marshal, Tammany Hall, The election of 1868, vote fraud, William Magear "Boss" Tweed
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