Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Month

The mask laid aside

Posted on September 29, 2012 by SUMPTER

A southern editorial on Abraham Lincoln’s September 22, 1862 Proclamation of Emancipation. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch September 30, 1862: Lincoln’s proclamation. The Yankee Government has at last laid aside all disguise. Lincoln openly proclaims the abolition of slavery throughout … Continue reading →

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The Week+ in Review

Posted on September 26, 2012 by SUMPTER

Here a Democrat newspaper from upstate New York in a single column comments on three events on eight days in September: The Battle of Antietam on the 17th, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of the 22nd, and the president’s order subjecting … Continue reading →

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Hey Junius

Posted on September 24, 2012 by SUMPTER

A Democrat newspaper found a graphic way of illustrating Democrat support for the Civil War by using a table of enlistment results – its majority Democrat county easily reached its quota of volunteers under the federal administration’s call for 600,000 … Continue reading →

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New Club in Town

Posted on September 22, 2012 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in September 1862: McClellan Club. The undersigned hereby form themselves into a Club, to be known as the “McClellan Club of Seneca Falls,” to [be] organized to support “the Constitutio[n,] the Union, and … Continue reading →

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A Noble Canandaiguan

Posted on September 8, 2012 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in September 1862: The Right Kind of Volunteer. CONRAD BANCROFT, of the town of Canandaigua, has enlisted as a private in the company of Capt. Griswold, in Col. Johnson’s regiment, now being formed … Continue reading →

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Florence Nightingales

Posted on September 4, 2012 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this week Harper’s Weekly published the following image of women at work helping the Union war effort: Son of the South also has the accompanying article: The war has produced scores of Florence Nightingales.

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Belle & the Boys Released

Posted on September 3, 2012 by SUMPTER

The Dix–Hill Cartel of July 22, 1862 regulated the exchange of Union and Confederate prisoners. Aiken’s Landing on the James River became a major exchange location. The following letter seems to describe the the Dix-Hill cartel at work. Confederate spy … Continue reading →

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The Four Percent

Posted on August 31, 2012 by SUMPTER

Two from Seneca County, New York newspapers in August 1862: In all the Government hospitals in the United States there are now 28,000 patients, or about four per cent. of the soldiers who have been mustered into the United States … Continue reading →

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Quota for “imperishable honor”

Posted on August 30, 2012 by SUMPTER

Here’s a local take on the call for Union troops during the summer of 1862. The numbers for the county and its towns are precise. The stigma of possibly needing to resort to a draft to supply the quota is … Continue reading →

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Fallen

Posted on August 29, 2012 by SUMPTER

I was drawn to the following photograph because I did not realize that tricorn hats were worn by Civil War soldiers. As it turns out, Private Thomas Green was killed 150 years ago today at the Second Battle of Bull … Continue reading →

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