-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Daily News - 150 Years Ago
General Civil War Sites
Other Resources
WordPress
Topical Paradise
- 19th NY Volunteer Infantry
- 33rd New York Infantry Regiment
- 50th New York Engineer Regiment
- 1860 Election
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson
- Army of the Potomac
- Battle of Fredericksburg
- Benjamin Franklin Butler
- Charleston
- Conscription
- Copperheads
- draft
- Edwin M. Stanton
- Fort Sumter
- George B. McClellan
- George Gordon Meade
- George Washington
- Gettysburg Campaign
- Horatio Seymour
- inflation
- Jefferson Davis
- New York City
- Overland Campaign
- Peninsula Campaign
- Presidential Reconstruction
- Prisoners of War
- Reconstruction
- recruitment
- Richmond
- Robert E. Lee
- secession
- Seneca Falls NY
- Siege of Petersburg
- Slavery
- South Carolina
- Southern Economy
- southern scarcity
- Thanksgiving
- The election of 1864
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Virginia
- William H. Seward
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- World War I
Categories
- 100 Years Ago
- 150 Years Ago
- 150 Years Ago This Month
- 150 Years Ago This Week
- 160 Years Ago
- 400 Years Ago
- 800 Years Ago
- After Fort Sumter
- Aftermath
- American Culture
- American History
- American Society
- Battle Monuments
- Battle of Fredericksburg
- Battlefields
- Books I've Enjoyed
- Chancellorsville Campaign
- Civil War Cemeteries
- Civil War prisons
- Confederate States of America
- First Manassas – Bull Run
- Foreign Relations
- Gettysburg Campaign
- Impeachment
- Lincoln Administration
- Maryland Campaign 1862
- Military Matters
- Monuments and Statues
- Naval Matters
- Northern Politics During War
- Northern Society
- Overland Campaign
- Peninsula campaign 1862
- Postbellum Politics
- Postbellum Society
- Reconstruction
- Secession and the Interregnum
- Siege of Petersburg
- Slavery
- Southern Society
- Technology
- The election of 1860
- The election of 1864
- The election of 1868
- The Election of 1872
- The election of 1920
- The Grant Administration
- Uncategorized
- United States Centennial
- Veterans
- Vicksburg Campaign
- War Consequences
- World Culture
- World History
- World War I
Subscribe by Feed
Subscribe by Email
Category Archives: Northern Society
Chicago Stampede Squelched
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 26, 1862: Martial law in Chicago — an attempted stampede to Canada, and how it was stopped. [From the Chicago Times.] Immediately after the reception in this city of the order from the War … Continue reading
Deadline: October 1st
Lee’s army should be demolished by then. The following is said to be an editorial published in the New York Herald apparently sometime around the First of August. It shows the importance of the Virginia theater in the northern public’s … Continue reading
The Beat Goes On
Death by disease; recruiting for an “old” regiment. Two from Seneca County, New York newspapers in August 1862: Death of a Volunteer. We regret to state that CHAS. SALVAGE, a volunteer from this village in Capt. MURRAY’s Company, 50th Regiment, … Continue reading
Don’t pray for our enemy
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 18, 1862: “Sketch of Dabney Carr Harrison.” This is the title of one of the most touching and beautiful portraitures ever drawn of the life and death of a Christian hero. The author is … Continue reading
Got Doctor’s Note?
Don’t Matter From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 12, 1862: Doctors’ certificates of no avail. The Albany Evening Journal says: We are requested by the Surgeon General to state, “that doctors’ certificates of disability will be of no earthly avail … Continue reading
Popinjay Power
In response to President Lincoln’s July, 1862 call for 300,000 more volunteers, a 58 year old patriot from Auburn, New York recruited a regiment. Here’s an editorial arguing against that patriot’s reported decision (and apparent power) to imprison a citizen … Continue reading
“question of pure brute force”
A newspaper from Albany, New York says it’s time for the North to get tougher. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 9, 1862: A Blast from Seward’s organ — Lesson for the War. The Albany Evening Journal (Seward’s organ) thinks … Continue reading
“casting about” for substitutes
An editorial in the Boston Journal via the Richmond Daily Dispatch of August 8, 1862 encourages Boston’s more successful men to volunteer instead of paying for substitutes: Leading men wanted in the Federal army. The Bottom [Boston] Journal has an … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Military Matters, Northern Society
Tagged Boston, recruitment, substitutes
Leave a comment
Government Stimulus
Talk about Big Sibling … here a newspaper seems to have a real good idea of exactly how much money is being sent home by local soldiers in the 33rd New York Volunteers. From a Seneca Falls, New York newspaper … Continue reading
War of and by the People?
From the Library of Congress
Posted in Military Matters, Northern Society
Tagged music, recruitment, volunteering
Leave a comment
