Category Archives: Northern Society

Absent Without a Vote

Posted on April 18, 2013 by SUMPTER

I guess it really is going to be a long war. Here’s an editorial by a Republican-leaning paper urging the New York state government to do whatever it took to let soldiers “vote by proxy” for the 1864 elections. From … Continue reading →

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The greenbacks are coming!

Posted on April 17, 2013 by SUMPTER

Last year I wondered how a local newspaper could know very accurately how much money was being sent home by Union volunteers. Apparently much of the money was funneled through a soldier’s captain, and the captain told the press. From … Continue reading →

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“cancel my signature”

Posted on April 16, 2013 by SUMPTER

From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six: ON COLONIZATION ARRANGEMENTS REPUDIATION OF AN AGREEMENT WITH BERNARD KOCK APRIL 16, 1863. A. LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, … Continue reading →

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Corporal Corpulent?

Posted on April 12, 2013 by SUMPTER

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 →

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Stamp Tax

Posted on April 9, 2013 by SUMPTER

One of the ways the Revenue Act of 1862 provided funds to pay for the Civil War was by various excise and stamp taxes. Here a Richmond newspaper reports on the revenue headed to the U.S. Treasury on the death … Continue reading →

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DC Union meeting

Posted on April 1, 2013 by SUMPTER

150 years ago yesterday a big Union rally was held in the federal Capitol. Andrew Johnson made an impassioned speech with President Lincoln looking on. Green Adams, a native of the president’s old home of Kentucky, agreed that the Administration … Continue reading →

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Hold Fast

Posted on March 30, 2013 by SUMPTER

The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six, by Abraham Lincoln at Project Gutenberg PROCLAMATION APPOINTING A NATIONAL FAST-DAY. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation. March 30, 1863. Whereas the Senate of the United … Continue reading →

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Anticipation

Posted on March 29, 2013 by SUMPTER

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 →

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Present Arms

Posted on March 28, 2013 by SUMPTER

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 →

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Burnside Exiled?

Posted on March 27, 2013 by SUMPTER

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 →

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