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Category Archives: 150 Years Ago This Month
Richmond rubble
According to the Library of Congress photographer Andrew J. Russell spent some time at the corner of Carey and Governor streets 150 years ago this month.
brass wall
After waxing poetical about the horrors of May 1864, an editorial from 150 years ago seemed to be thankful for peace and quite certain that a positive result of the war was that foreign nations would never dare invade the … Continue reading
germ warfare?
From The New-York Times May 7, 1865: THE YELLOW FEVER PLOT.; Judicial Investigation at St. George’s–The Evidence Against Blackburn Conclusive. HALIFAX, N.S., Saturday, May 6. The Bermuda papers contain long accounts of the judicial investigation, now being held at St. … Continue reading
the right executive’s in the mansion
The Democrat Reveille found some kind words to write about Abraham Lincoln after his death. It seems that Southerners and Northern Democrats appreciated President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and the lenient terms of surrender offered Southern armies. Here a presumably … Continue reading
banner headline
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
“large personal profits”
April 1865 – surrender, assassination, joy, resignation, despair, mourning. And news of alleged corruption in the military bureaucracy. Four from Seneca County, New York newspapers in April 1865: REMOVAL OF MAJOR HADDOCK. – It is reported that Maj. Haddock has … Continue reading
petition for legal protection
On February 22, 1865 “Tennessee voters approve a new state constitution that abolishes slavery” According to this report, on the same day that President Lincoln was shot, black men in Tennessee petitioned the state senate for legal rights. Freedom wouldn’t … Continue reading
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Everybody Loves Abraham
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in April 1865: THE REBEL PRISONERS AT ELMIRA. – It is stated that the rebel prisoners at Elmira were keenly affected by the news of Mr. Lincoln’s assassination, and requested permission to make … Continue reading
puppet show?
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1865 (in same column as the April 9, 1865 written communication between Generals Lee and Grant regarding surrender): JAMES REDPATH, the abolition leader, now the Charleston correspondent of the New York Tribune, … Continue reading
make love, and war
Spring’s not a bad time to celebrate the creative arts. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in April 1865: A corporal of the 18th New Hampshire regiment was recently taken ill and sent to the hospital, and in a … Continue reading
