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Wide-Awakes Celebrate; Minute Men Expand
I’ve definitely been learning about how many political organizations were extremely active throughout the country during the 1860 election. The Republican- supporting Wide-Awakes seem to have been everywhere in the North with torch-lit processions marching for their man Lincoln. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Minute Men, Wide-Awakes
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Lincoln Pumps Fists in Victory? No
Lincoln’s Reaction to His Election As other Civil War sites have noted, there was the expected strong and negative reaction to Lincoln’s victory throughout the South. On November 8, 1860, The New-York Times. published a report from the President-elect’s home … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Jackson, lincoln, springfield
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Cotton Piled Up from Memphis to Vicksburg
In 1860 the presidential election was held on November 6th. One of the Headlines from The New-York Times. that day sure sounded ominous: Immediate Secession Recommended by the Governor of South Carolina. The Times carried a lot of news from … Continue reading
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Seward Refuses Obeisance to King Cotton
William H. Seward, a Republican U.S. senator from New York, was hitting the campaign trail hard during the week before the presidential election of 1860. On October 30th he spoke before 15,000 people in Lyons, New York, a small town … Continue reading
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Tagged cotton, King Cotton, Little Giants, William H. Seward
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Minute Men Proselytize Memphis
I’ve been learning how political groups were formed during the highly contentious election of 1860. Wide-Awakes for Lincoln; Little Giants for Douglas. Recently I posted an excerpt from The New-York Times. that described South Carolina’s Minute Men, who organized to … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Cockades, Dixie, Memphis, Minute Men, secession
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Happy Halloween!
YouTube has a lot about Civil War ghosts. Here’s one at Manassas: There’s many more ghost videos to look at. Join the debate on whether the ghosts are real. See General Lee’s ghost at Gettysburg! Gee, I think I’m getting … Continue reading
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“A Fall in the Price of Cotton and Negroes”
Recently I posted an excerpt from the October 18, 1860 issue of The New-York Times. about the Minute Men in South Carolina. In the same issue The Times published more Southern reaction to the big Republican victories in the state … Continue reading
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Abraham Lincoln Creates Fusion
Or, Anybody but Lincoln According to the October 24, 1860 issue of The New-York Times. there was a huge Fusion demonstration in New York the night before. 25,000 supporters of Douglas, Breckenridge, and Bell-Everett marched through the city streets to … Continue reading
The Mystery of The Little Giants
Meandering through the Seneca Fall (NY) public library recently I noticed a shelf filled with some interesting-looking notebooks (no, not laptops, actual old-fashioned three-ring binders). These binders contained archival material from the village historian. They were arranged by date from … Continue reading
Minutemen Reprised: South Carolina 1860
With the presidential election less than three weeks away the tension in the country keeps on building: From The New-York Times., October 18, 1860: MINUTE MEN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The Charleston Mercury thus notices a new movement in the “Carolina … Continue reading
