Category Archives: Northern Society

blackberry brandy

Posted on August 2, 2014 by SUMPTER

a “sovereign balm” Diarrhea/dysentery was one of the major killing diseases for Civil War soldiers . 150 years ago this week New Yorkers were urged to contribute whatever blackberry products they could to help hospitals fight the sickness. From The … Continue reading →

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armistice

Posted on July 29, 2014 by SUMPTER

A Democrat editorial thought the war was too costly to continue it just for the purpose of abolishing slavery and believed peace negotiations should be the main issue in the 1864 elections. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in … Continue reading →

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hub letter

Posted on July 26, 2014 by SUMPTER

It seems that this civilian correspondent could relate just about all his topics to the war. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1864: LETTER FROM BOSTON. BOSTON, MASS., July 11, 1864. FRIEND STOWELL: – Now that our “Russian … Continue reading →

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bureaucratic nightmare

Posted on July 24, 2014 by SUMPTER

Wages in DC for lower level federal clerks weren’t keeping up with prices. The civil servants were heading home. From The New-York Times July 24, 1864: NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; HIGH PRICES AND THE CLERKS. … Special Dispatches to the New-York … Continue reading →

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halt the juggernaut

Posted on July 22, 2014 by SUMPTER

crushing the rebellion crushing the Union? A publication in upstate New York called for the end of the war and its great costs in terms of the dead and maimed, the public debt, and the loss of Constitutional liberty. From … Continue reading →

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raise ya 200,000

Posted on July 19, 2014 by SUMPTER

I kinda felt like I was at a card table with the most vigorous prosecutors of the war. From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Seven: TELEGRAM TO GENERAL U.S. GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, July 20, 1864. 4.30 … Continue reading →

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strength and peace

Posted on July 18, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today President Lincoln

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convert

Posted on July 7, 2014 by SUMPTER

I don’t know how accurate the folowing letter is, but it would seem to have been quite a propaganda coup for a Democrat paper, especially during the 1864 presidential campaign. The Lincoln administration was too abolitionist for this letter-writing Republican … Continue reading →

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good time in the grove

Posted on July 4, 2014 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1864: FOURTH OF JULY IN TYRE. – The patriotic citizens of Tyre have procured a monument which is to be erected to the memory of the deceased Soldiers from that town. It … Continue reading →

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first anniversary

Posted on July 3, 2014 by SUMPTER

A year after Gettysburg, General Meade reflected on his great victory in a letter to his wife. From The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade … (page 210): HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, July 3. 1864. We are not … Continue reading →

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