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Category Archives: Postbellum Politics
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From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in September 1866: The Second Campaign for the Union. The noblest soldiers in the army of the Union, assembled in convention at Cleveland on Monday, the 17th, inst., for the purpose of giving … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Reconstruction
Tagged 1866 Elections, Cleveland Convention, Cleveland Ohio, John Ellis Wool, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Oliver Hazard Perry, Presidential Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Reconstruction, Soldiers and Sailors Cleveland Convention 1866, Thomas Ewing Jr.
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straggling home
150 years ago today President Andrew Johnson’s Swing Around the Circle tour concluded. According to the September 16, 1866 issue of the The New-York Times crowds in York Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Washington were mostly supportive with no reported heckling. From … Continue reading
“not entire cordiality”
It was more of the same 150 years ago today as President Andrew Johnson’s Swing Around the Circle rode the rails from Columbus, Ohio to Pittsburgh. According to the September 14, 1866 issue of The New-York Times the tour met … Continue reading
polite disagreement
150 years ago Andrew Johnson’s Swing Around the Circle was rolling and floating along. Unlike Cleveland and St. Louis, President Johnson didn’t care to make a stand against the hecklers who confronted him in Indianapolis on September 10th. As some … Continue reading
“A Terbulent Crowd”
150 years ago today Andrew Johnson’s Swing Around the Circle tour rode the rails from St. Louis to Indianapolis. According to the September 11, 1866 issue of The New-York Times crowds were enthusiastic and polite along the way, especially enthusiastic … Continue reading
Judas and Saint Louis
150 years ago today Andrew Johnson’s Swing Around the Circle proceeded from Springfield, Illinois to St. Louis. According to the September 10, 1866 issue of The New-York Times everything went well as the people of Alton, Illinois gave the president … Continue reading
radical convention
During the 1866 campaign season a “radical convention” met in Philadelphia from September 3-7. Southern “loyalists” participated; it seems they were loyal to Congress and the radical Republican approach to Reconstruction. Here is Charles Ernest Chadsey’s 1896 take on President … Continue reading
cornerstone ceremonies
150 years ago today Andrew Johnson’s “Swing Around the Circle” made it to Chicago for the ostensible purpose of the tour – to participate in the ceremonies laying the cornerstone of the Stephen A. Douglas monument. The actual laying of … Continue reading
“first low point”
On September 3, 1866 Andrew Johnson’s Swing Around the Circle stopped in Cleveland, Ohio. William Stahr referred to President Johnson’s Cleveland speech as the “first low point” of the tour. The crowd was full of hecklers, and the president responded … Continue reading
