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Category Archives: Military Matters
Corporal Corpulent?
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in April 1863: A Young Corporal. The Rochester Union says that a private letter from an officer in the 20th Reg. N.Y.S.V., to a friend in that city states that a Corporal in … Continue reading
Anticipation
More soldiers from the New York 33d Voluntary Infantry visited visited home 150 years ago, only two or three months before their two year commitment would be completed. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1863: LIEUT. PRICE … Continue reading
Present Arms
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper, presumably sometime in early 1863: Presentation to Capt. McDonald. Capt. JAS. H. MCDONALD, of the 50th Regiment, received on Monday evening, a very substantial present at the hands of his fellow-citizens, for gallant … Continue reading
Burnside Exiled?
I guess if you’re a strongly Democratic party newspaper you have to pretty much criticize everything the Lincoln administration does. After the Battle of Fredericksburg a Seneca County, New York newspaper blasted the Lincoln and his War Department for the … Continue reading
Sambo and Coffee
A Democratic Party oriented newspaper maintained that blacks would have to be drafted to fight for their freedom. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1863: Drafting the Negroes. All the highly colored stories concerning negro volunteers at … Continue reading
Death of General Sumner
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1863: Death of Gen. Sumner. Major General EDWIN V. SUMNER died at the residence of his son-in-law at Syracuse, on Saturday morning March 21st, at the advanced age of 67 years. … Continue reading
Back East
Based on its placement in a notebook full of clippings, I believe this article from a Seneca County, New York newspaper was probably published around March, 1863. Regular U.S. Infantry had come back from the West to fight the rebels … Continue reading
furlough
Apparently an officer in the New York 33d Volunteer Infantry took advantage of a winter break in the action to visit home. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1863: Personal. Capt. MCGRAW, of the 33d Regiment arrived … Continue reading
can’t carry a tune
Like a song I can’t get out of my head, I just can’t seem to let go this statement about March 7, 1863: Federal troops in Baltimore, Maryland, confiscate all song sheets that are deemed “secession music.” I have not … Continue reading
“General of pluck”
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch March 7, 1863: The condition of the Army of the Potomac. A letter in the New York Tribune dated from the Army of the Potomac, gives a description of the working of matters there at … Continue reading
