Category Archives: Lincoln Administration

Lincoln and the federal government

Accidents Happen

Posted on December 22, 2012 by SUMPTER

From Project Gutenberg (Volume VI): CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, December 22, 1862. TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC: I have just read your general’s report of the battle of Fredericksburg. Although you were not … Continue reading →

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“needlessly, wickedly sacrificed”

Posted on December 21, 2012 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in December 1862: Again Defeated. What is to be said in this week of the nation’s agony? What word is sufficient in these days red with battle and hot with the flush of … Continue reading →

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Nation’s Abundance, Army’s Impedimenta

Posted on November 22, 2012 by SUMPTER

Don’t be like Mac. A couple weeks after relieving the dilatory George McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac, President Lincoln advises Nathaniel Banks to stop requisitioning supplies, stop procrastinating, and get his Army of the Gulf sailing … Continue reading →

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Hyde Parked – for good!

Posted on November 15, 2012 by SUMPTER

Civil War Interactive used to have a great paragraph about 150 years ago today – the gadget loving President Lincoln visited the Washington Navy Yard with Secretaries Seward and Chase to watch Captain John A.B. Dahlgren test a device called … Continue reading →

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Any day now

Posted on October 29, 2012 by SUMPTER

Civil War Daily Gazette has been doing a great job giving us the interplay between President Lincoln and General McClellan as the president tries to gently goad his general into getting the army south of the Potomac and attacking the … Continue reading →

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Rejoice! (at least for today)

Posted on October 26, 2012 by SUMPTER

Reasons to procrastinate – the president marks the ways 150 years ago this President Lincoln resorted to sarcasm to try to get George McClellan and his Army of the Potomac south of the Potomac. As the Stars and Bars Blog … Continue reading →

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How suspenders worked

Posted on October 19, 2012 by SUMPTER

In August 1862 Secretary of War Stanton ordered arrests for disloyal practices and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in those cases. Here’s how that worked out in practice at least in this case (and to the extent … Continue reading →

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The New Wide-Awakes?

Posted on October 11, 2012 by SUMPTER

During the 1860 election campaign the Wide Awakes “was a paramilitary campaign organization affiliated with the Republican Party”. The following editorial is concerned that the Republican-led federal government is wide awake to punishing dissenting opinion. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading →

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Evaluating Ullman

Posted on October 3, 2012 by SUMPTER

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch October 4 (or 3), 1862: A military Politician. –Among the latest arrivals of Yankee officers is Daniel Ullman, formerly the great gun of the Know Nothings of New York. He was operating on the line … Continue reading →

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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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