Author Archives: SUMPTER

clique politics

Posted on July 31, 2015 by SUMPTER

A war widow was passed over in the appointment of a Post Master in Penn Yan, New York. A Democrat paper showed that even a Republican paper disagreed with the decision. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in July … Continue reading →

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Banned in Charleston

Posted on July 31, 2015 by SUMPTER

DURYEA’s ZOUAVES, the white regiment stationed at Charleston which refused to allow the negro soldiers full swing, was ordered from the city for this heinous offence. Afterwards their colors were demanded of them. The Colonel refused to give them up, … Continue reading →

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taunts

Posted on July 28, 2015 by SUMPTER

Couldn’t folks have been a little more bipartisan 150 years ago? From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in July 1865: Employment for Soldiers. The Auburn Advertiser days the scarcity of help among the farmers, should induce the returned soldiers … Continue reading →

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new American revolution?

Posted on July 25, 2015 by SUMPTER

In a long 1777 letter to the Committee of Secret Correspondence Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, American Commissioners in Paris, wrote the following optimistic assessment of Europe’s regard for America and its rebel cause: Tyranny is so generally established in … Continue reading →

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progress on government plantations

Posted on July 24, 2015 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times July 22, 1865: The Freedmen of the South The Successful Progress of the Policy of the Government. It is gratifying to know that the Freedman’s Bureau in Washington, under the management of Major-Gen. HOWARD, and the … Continue reading →

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tech times

Posted on July 23, 2015 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today The New-York Times headlined some remarkable technology. The world’s largest ironclad was launched three months after the Civil War ended, and some people imagined trains running up in the air over Broadway. The USS Dunderberg was … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 21, 2015 by SUMPTER

Probability of dying at “Hellmira” From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in July 1865: REBEL PRISONERS AT ELMIRA. – The Elmira Advertiser gives the statistics of the number of rebels that have been imprisoned at Elmira. The whole number … Continue reading →

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“our sad, though interesting duties”

Posted on July 20, 2015 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper on July 20, 1865: Miss Clara Barton, daughter of Judge Barton, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who has obtained national repute by publishing a list of missing soldiers and by heroic deeds to the wounded, … Continue reading →

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Southern roadblock?

Posted on July 16, 2015 by SUMPTER

If delegations from the rebel states are re-admitted to the Congress without conditions, could they stifle the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery? From The New-York Times July 9, 1865: Letter from Wendell Phillips. THE RESTORATION OF THE SOUTHERN … Continue reading →

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cleaning up

Posted on July 13, 2015 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper apparently in July 1865: The party which went out to bury the dead in the Wilderness battle field, took with them twenty wagon loads of coffins and three weeks’ rations. Poet Thomas Bailey … Continue reading →

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