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Tag Archives: Georgia
peanut prophecy
From the July 16, 1870 issue of Harper’s Weekly: PEA-NUTS. OUR illustration on this page represents a scene which is perfectly familiar to those who have visited our Southern cities; and we dare say some of our readers who have … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged Alfred Howe Terry, Bowery Theatre, food bias, George Washington Carver, Georgia, Hôtel de Bavière, John Bankhead Magruder, Ku Klux Klan, peanuts, Savannah Georgia, Thaddeus Stevens
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not in their backyard
In its September 22, 1868 issue the The New-York Times published a report of political violence in southeastern Georgia that occurred on September 19th. A couple of Republican politicians traveled to Camilla for a rally. As they neared the town … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The election of 1868
Tagged Camilla Georgia, Camilla massacre, Francis Preston Blair Jr., George Gordon Meade, Georgia, Horatio Seymour, John B. Gordon, John McAllister Schofield, The election of 1868, Wade Hampton III
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late summer of ’68
Some headlines from early September 1868. Statewide elections in Vermont resulted in large Republican majorities. The Georgia legislature expelled twenty-five black representatives (New York Times September 4, 1868). After a conference at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Union General William … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, Southern Society, The election of 1868
Tagged Georgia, Gerrit Smith, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Reconstruction, Robert E. Lee, The election of 1868, Vermont, William Rosecrans
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“a secret organization, for no good purpose”
According to Wikipedia George W. Ashburn was born in North Carolina and later moved to Georgia. He opposed the secession of Georgia and was commissioned a Colonel in the Union army. In 1867 Mr. Ashburn called to order the Georgia … Continue reading
unfunded mandate
In November 1867 the state of Georgia conducted an election to choose delegates for a convention that would rewrite the state constitution. The convention convened in early December 1867 in Atlanta; one of the first issues it faced was the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, Charles Jones Jenkins, George Gordon Meade, Georgia, John Aaron Rawlins, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Acts, Third Military District (Reconstruction), Thomas Howard Ruger, Ulysses S. Grant
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“a national holiday”
with regional characteristics Thanksgiving Day was celebrated 150 years ago today across the United State. The New-York Times thought that the observance was almost beyond the need for presidential or gubernatorial proclamations. Thanksgiving was becoming “a national holiday” anticipated by … Continue reading
no respect
It was pitiful enough to find so much idleness, but it was more pitiful to observe that it was likely to continue indefinitely. The war will not have borne proper fruit, if our peace does not speedily bring respect for … Continue reading
lemonade stand
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
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged free labor, freed slaves, Georgia, Reconstruction
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vandals?
A Democratic-leaning paper in upstate New York was not quite so enamored of total war in Georgia as The New-York Times appeared to be in its Thanksgiving day issue. Presumably the rebels would soon resist the Union army with a … Continue reading
Georgia quiet
There hadn’t been much news from Georgia in recent days. A Richmond paper tried to guess what that meant. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch November 12, 1864: Saturday Morning…november 12, 1864. The War News. … Georgia. There has been no … Continue reading
