Tag Archives: Abraham Lincoln

Hyde Parked – for good!

Posted on November 15, 2012 by SUMPTER

Civil War Interactive used to have a great paragraph about 150 years ago today – the gadget loving President Lincoln visited the Washington Navy Yard with Secretaries Seward and Chase to watch Captain John A.B. Dahlgren test a device called … Continue reading →

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“more indignation and alarm”

Posted on November 14, 2012 by SUMPTER

No surprise here. A Seneca County newspaper that was strongly oriented in favor of the Democratic Party is unhappy with President Lincoln and his administration for the removal of George McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac. This … Continue reading →

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Be like Zach

Posted on November 12, 2012 by SUMPTER

Democrats throughout the North had a good deal of success in the 1862 midterm elections. The Democrats picked up 28 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives (although Republicans were still able to control the House thanks to the support … Continue reading →

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Any day now

Posted on October 29, 2012 by SUMPTER

Civil War Daily Gazette has been doing a great job giving us the interplay between President Lincoln and General McClellan as the president tries to gently goad his general into getting the army south of the Potomac and attacking the … Continue reading →

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Rejoice! (at least for today)

Posted on October 26, 2012 by SUMPTER

Reasons to procrastinate – the president marks the ways 150 years ago this President Lincoln resorted to sarcasm to try to get George McClellan and his Army of the Potomac south of the Potomac. As the Stars and Bars Blog … Continue reading →

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“Three cheers for the hope of America”

Posted on October 5, 2012 by SUMPTER

President Lincoln stopped in Frederick, Maryland on his way back to the nation’s capital after vising General McClellan and the Army of the Potomac at Antietam. Our correspondent saw the brief storm that hit Frederick during the president’s visit as … Continue reading →

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The mask laid aside

Posted on September 29, 2012 by SUMPTER

A southern editorial on Abraham Lincoln’s September 22, 1862 Proclamation of Emancipation. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch September 30, 1862: Lincoln’s proclamation. The Yankee Government has at last laid aside all disguise. Lincoln openly proclaims the abolition of slavery throughout … Continue reading →

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“breath alone kills no rebels”

Posted on September 28, 2012 by SUMPTER

As a congressman and senator from Maine Hannibal Hamlin consistently opposed the extension of slavery. According to The life and times of Hannibal Hamlin by Charles Eugene Hamlin, Hannibal’s grandson, Hamlin continued his opposition to slavery as Lincoln’s vice-president. The … Continue reading →

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The Week+ in Review

Posted on September 26, 2012 by SUMPTER

Here a Democrat newspaper from upstate New York in a single column comments on three events on eight days in September: The Battle of Antietam on the 17th, President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of the 22nd, and the president’s order subjecting … Continue reading →

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Team of dead-wood?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by SUMPTER

According to this report, an Albany, New York newspaper thinks the Confederacy is doing as well as it is in the rebellion because its government is non-partisan and set up on a war footing. The Lincoln administration, on the other … Continue reading →

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