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Category Archives: Reconstruction
It’s up to Uncle Sam
For, disguise it as we may, the United States government really holds and exercises the power which gives vitality to the preliminaries of reconstruction, and it is therefore responsible for all evils in the future which shall spring from its … Continue reading
A more northern North Carolina
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in August 1865: A large number of Union soldiers in North Carolina have made up their minds to stay in that vicinity and are marrying the widows and girls and settling on the … Continue reading
disruptive
150 years ago this week a Northern newspaper reprinted a report it found in a Petersburg, Virginia newspaper. A city that began the year under siege was trying to adjust to the huge change in the economic-social system caused by … Continue reading
elective*
This Thomas Nast cartoon was published in the August 5, 1865 issue of Harper’s Weekly. You can read more about it at the Library of Congress: “Centerfold prints show Columbia considering why she should pardon Confederate troops who are begging … Continue reading
Banned in Charleston
DURYEA’s ZOUAVES, the white regiment stationed at Charleston which refused to allow the negro soldiers full swing, was ordered from the city for this heinous offence. Afterwards their colors were demanded of them. The Colonel refused to give them up, … Continue reading
new American revolution?
In a long 1777 letter to the Committee of Secret Correspondence Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, American Commissioners in Paris, wrote the following optimistic assessment of Europe’s regard for America and its rebel cause: Tyranny is so generally established in … Continue reading
progress on government plantations
From The New-York Times July 22, 1865: The Freedmen of the South The Successful Progress of the Policy of the Government. It is gratifying to know that the Freedman’s Bureau in Washington, under the management of Major-Gen. HOWARD, and the … Continue reading
Southern roadblock?
If delegations from the rebel states are re-admitted to the Congress without conditions, could they stifle the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery? From The New-York Times July 9, 1865: Letter from Wendell Phillips. THE RESTORATION OF THE SOUTHERN … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Northern Politics During War, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Andrew Johnson, James Redpath, Presidential Reconstruction, Reconstruction, Thirteenth Amendment U.S. Constitution, voting rights, Wendell Phillips
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“devout joy at the salvation of the country”
From The New-York Times July 6, 1865: THE CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE DAY. The observance of the National Anniversary was characterized everywhere throughout the country by a sober heartiness and earnest enthusiasm, in perfect keeping with the peculiarities of the occasion. … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Northern Society, Reconstruction, Veterans
Tagged 148th New York Infantry Regiment, 15th New York Engineer Regiment, 3rd New York Volunteer Artillery, 50th New York Engineer Regiment, 8th New York Cavalry Regiment, battle monuments, Daniel Butterfield, Daniel Sickles, Declaration of Independence, George Murray Guion, Independence Day, John B. Murray, Reconstruction, returning veterans, Slavery, Ulysses S. Grant, Zalmon A. Disbrow
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my only friend …
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in June 1865: The Papers. The war is over! and yet we hardly appreciate the fact. We have become so accustomed to look for and read attentively the details of battles, that the … Continue reading
