Category Archives: Northern Politics During War

mail-in ballots

Posted on October 27, 2014 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in October 1864: SOLDIERS’ VOTES. – The votes of our soldiers are now being received in considerable numbers daily throughout the county. Those receiving them should be careful not to open the inner … Continue reading →

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in black and white

Posted on October 25, 2014 by SUMPTER

red all over … but a lot less than Democrats claim. Democrat newspapers claimed the public debt would be $4 billion by the end of the war. A Republican publication calculated the debt as of September 30, 1864 as about … Continue reading →

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“the heavy hand of power”

Posted on October 24, 2014 by SUMPTER

[I originally planned to post the following back in March, but was uncertain about the timing. The local newspaper article does seem to have been influenced by the Democrats’ playbook for the 1864 election.] I am confused about the timing … Continue reading →

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heads game

Posted on October 23, 2014 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times October 24, 1864: … MR. PENDLETON VISITS NEW YORK. Mr. PENDLETON, Democratic candidate for Vice-President, left Cincinnati incognito last Thursday, on a visit to the East. He was in Philadelphia yesterday, and to-morrow will reach New … Continue reading →

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northern exposure

Posted on October 20, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago yesterday St. Albans, Vermont was “raided” by a band of Confederates led by Bennett Henderson Young. The rebels entered Vermont via Canada and took rooms in St. Albans’ hotels. On the 19th they held up three banks … Continue reading →

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constitutional

Posted on October 18, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this month voters in Maryland narrowly approved a new state constitution that outlawed slavery. The votes of Maryland soldiers serving in the Union army proved to be decisive. President Lincoln probably was pleased with the Maryland vote … Continue reading →

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electoral bullying banned

Posted on October 14, 2014 by SUMPTER

At least in the army by New York State In a good article on the soldiers’ vote Mr. Lincoln and New York explains that New Yorkers overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment in the spring of 1864 allowing troops to vote … Continue reading →

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spinning victory

Posted on October 13, 2014 by SUMPTER

Apparently both the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a Republican newspaper, The New-York Times, claimed victory in the October 10 or 11, 1864 Pennsylvania state election. And they both saw their victory as a victory for the Union. … Continue reading →

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“stickler for that obsolete thing”

Posted on October 10, 2014 by SUMPTER

Richmond citizens were probably happy to hear that an ” Old Line Whig” opposed Abraham Lincoln’s re-election in the 1864 campaign. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch October 10, 1864: M’Clellan meeting at Rochester. A great meeting had been held at … Continue reading →

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death sentence?

Posted on October 7, 2014 by SUMPTER

Two years on a Democrat paper sure was not forgiving and forgetting President Lincoln’s sacking of George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac. The paper also claimed that Mr. Lincoln would make decisions about General McClellan’s … Continue reading →

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