Category Archives: Southern Society

A more northern North Carolina

Posted on August 19, 2015 by SUMPTER

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 →

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disruptive

Posted on August 12, 2015 by SUMPTER

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 →

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Banned in Charleston

Posted on July 31, 2015 by SUMPTER

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 →

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new American revolution?

Posted on July 25, 2015 by SUMPTER

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 →

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progress on government plantations

Posted on July 24, 2015 by SUMPTER

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 →

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this is the end …

Posted on June 17, 2015 by SUMPTER

From The New-York Times June 22, 1865: THE SUICIDE OF RUFFIN.; The Man who Fired the First Gun on Fort Sumter Blows His Brains Out He Prefers Death to Living Under the Government of the United States. Correspondence of the … Continue reading →

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no war, no work

Posted on June 15, 2015 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today The Chicago Times reprinted a report from the one-time capital of the Confederacy. Richmond was swarming with former rebel soldiers unable to find work: The Chicago editors had a hunch that the war’s end meant bounty-jumpers … Continue reading →

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lemonade stand

Posted on June 12, 2015 by SUMPTER

Talk about “Yankees.” It is time we were all Yankees, if by the term is meant a shrewd, energetic and indomitable encounter with difficulties. Tell us about being “Abolitionists!” We are all Abolitionists by force of events — by the … Continue reading →

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common sense

Posted on June 10, 2015 by SUMPTER

Taking the Oath in North Carolina The front page of the June 10, 1865 issue of The Chicago Times (at the Library of Congress) featured reports from throughout the South. There were many problems, including great hunger. There was some … Continue reading →

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southern social war?

Posted on June 6, 2015 by SUMPTER

The National Government “has freed the four millions of slaves by its own deliberate acts, and it is bound to take care that this freedom shall benefit, and not injure them.” – hopefully with the support of the state governments … Continue reading →

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