Category Archives: Northern Society

The New Wide-Awakes?

Posted on October 11, 2012 by SUMPTER

During the 1860 election campaign the Wide Awakes “was a paramilitary campaign organization affiliated with the Republican Party”. The following editorial is concerned that the Republican-led federal government is wide awake to punishing dissenting opinion. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading →

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“breath alone kills no rebels”

Posted on September 28, 2012 by SUMPTER

As a congressman and senator from Maine Hannibal Hamlin consistently opposed the extension of slavery. According to The life and times of Hannibal Hamlin by Charles Eugene Hamlin, Hannibal’s grandson, Hamlin continued his opposition to slavery as Lincoln’s vice-president. The … Continue reading →

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First Louisiana Native Guard

Posted on September 27, 2012 by SUMPTER

According to Historynet, 150 years ago today the 1st Louisiana Native Guard became the first African-American regiment accepted into United States service. It was organized by Ben Butler during his military supervision of New Orleans. You can see more images … Continue reading →

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Care Packages Get the Thumbs Down

Posted on September 25, 2012 by SUMPTER

Hundreds of Tons Warehoused From The New-York Times September 26, 1862: Protest Against Sending Presents to Soldiers. CENTRAL OFFICE, SANITARY COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 1862. The Sanitary Commission, at the request of Gen. HALLECK, Commanding in Chief the Armies of … Continue reading →

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Hey Junius

Posted on September 24, 2012 by SUMPTER

A Democrat newspaper found a graphic way of illustrating Democrat support for the Civil War by using a table of enlistment results – its majority Democrat county easily reached its quota of volunteers under the federal administration’s call for 600,000 … Continue reading →

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New Club in Town

Posted on September 22, 2012 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in September 1862: McClellan Club. The undersigned hereby form themselves into a Club, to be known as the “McClellan Club of Seneca Falls,” to [be] organized to support “the Constitutio[n,] the Union, and … Continue reading →

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A Noble Canandaiguan

Posted on September 8, 2012 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in September 1862: The Right Kind of Volunteer. CONRAD BANCROFT, of the town of Canandaigua, has enlisted as a private in the company of Capt. Griswold, in Col. Johnson’s regiment, now being formed … Continue reading →

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Enforcing the Monster’s Orders

Posted on September 7, 2012 by SUMPTER

Southern Pennsylvania and Dubuque, Iowa The first part of the following article is mostly an editorial in a southern Pennsylvania Democrat newspaper. Its opposition to the Lincoln administration’s orders against the discouragement of enlistment are very similar to an editorial … Continue reading →

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Florence Nightingales

Posted on September 4, 2012 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this week Harper’s Weekly published the following image of women at work helping the Union war effort: Son of the South also has the accompanying article: The war has produced scores of Florence Nightingales.

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Quota for “imperishable honor”

Posted on August 30, 2012 by SUMPTER

Here’s a local take on the call for Union troops during the summer of 1862. The numbers for the county and its towns are precise. The stigma of possibly needing to resort to a draft to supply the quota is … Continue reading →

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