Category Archives: Military Matters

Fiat: we’ll pay the troops

Posted on January 17, 2013 by SUMPTER

President Lincoln agreed with Congress that Union soldiers and sailors had to be paid, even if that required printing up to $100 million in new currency. From THE PAPERS AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (VOLUME SIX) : PRINTING MONEY MESSAGE … Continue reading →

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Debt for our debts

Posted on January 16, 2013 by SUMPTER

Apparently the strongly pro-Democrat newspaper in Seneca County wasn’t exaggerating too much when it complained that troops and their families were suffering because the federal government was way behind in paying its soldiers. From The New-York Times January 13, 1863: … Continue reading →

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“destitution, insult and wrong”

Posted on January 15, 2013 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in January 1863: Our Suffering Soldiers. It is a fact that can no longer be denied, that suffering of the most aggravated character exists among the soldiers, from the neglect of Government. In … Continue reading →

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Jackson & Lee

Posted on January 8, 2013 by SUMPTER

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch January 8, 1863: Testimonial to Lieut. Gen. Jackson. The citizens of the county of Augusta, in appreciation of the services of this distinguished chieftain, have presented him with an elegant horse and equipments. The following … Continue reading →

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Little Fireside Chats

Posted on January 5, 2013 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper on January 3, 1863: CONFIDENCE IN THE ARMY OF M’CLELLAN. – S.P. Allen, Esq. editor of the Rochester Democrat, on a visit to the Army of the Potomac, at Fredericksburg, writes that paper … Continue reading →

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Chaplain’s Last Fight

Posted on January 3, 2013 by SUMPTER

News of a Christmas eve burial via Richmond. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch January 2, 1863: Death of a fighting Chaplain. Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, Chaplain of a Massachusetts regiment, who was killed at Fredericksburg, was buried at Boston on … Continue reading →

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Fireworks for the New Year

Posted on January 1, 2013 by SUMPTER

Why it’s good to keep your pilot on board ship. In the very early hours of 1863 a combined Confederate force under John Bankhead Magruder attacked the Union occupiers of Galveston, Texas. During the Battle of Galveston (or the Second … Continue reading →

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Lots of Riding … and Writing

Posted on December 31, 2012 by SUMPTER

In the fall of 1862 the 1st New York Cavalry Regiment operated in northwest Virginia. One of its main jobs was apparently protecting the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from rebel raiders in the soon-to-be 35th state in the federal Union. … Continue reading →

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Pine Grove Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2012 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in January 1863: The 33d Regiment. A correspondent of the Rochester Union in the 33d regiment, thus writes of a pleasant affair which occurred at Col. TAYLOR’s head quarters on Christmas day: Col. … Continue reading →

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Crestfallen?

Posted on December 19, 2012 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times December 18, 1862: GEN. BURNSIDE’S SUNDAY DISPATCH. The following is a copy of a dispatch from Gen. BURNSIDE to the President, sent and received on Sunday morning last, concerning the precise import and phraseology of which … Continue reading →

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