-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Daily News - 150 Years Ago
General Civil War Sites
Other Resources
WordPress
Topical Paradise
- 19th NY Volunteer Infantry
- 33rd New York Infantry Regiment
- 50th New York Engineer Regiment
- 1860 Election
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson
- Army of the Potomac
- Battle of Fredericksburg
- Benjamin Franklin Butler
- Charleston
- Conscription
- Copperheads
- draft
- Edwin M. Stanton
- Fort Sumter
- George B. McClellan
- George Gordon Meade
- George Washington
- Gettysburg Campaign
- Horatio Seymour
- inflation
- Jefferson Davis
- New York City
- Overland Campaign
- Peninsula Campaign
- Presidential Reconstruction
- Prisoners of War
- Reconstruction
- recruitment
- Richmond
- Robert E. Lee
- secession
- Seneca Falls NY
- Siege of Petersburg
- Slavery
- South Carolina
- Southern Economy
- southern scarcity
- Thanksgiving
- The election of 1864
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Virginia
- William H. Seward
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- World War I
Categories
- 100 Years Ago
- 150 Years Ago
- 150 Years Ago This Month
- 150 Years Ago This Week
- 160 Years Ago
- 400 Years Ago
- 800 Years Ago
- After Fort Sumter
- Aftermath
- American Culture
- American History
- American Society
- Battle Monuments
- Battle of Fredericksburg
- Battlefields
- Books I've Enjoyed
- Chancellorsville Campaign
- Civil War Cemeteries
- Civil War prisons
- Confederate States of America
- First Manassas – Bull Run
- Foreign Relations
- Gettysburg Campaign
- Impeachment
- Lincoln Administration
- Maryland Campaign 1862
- Military Matters
- Monuments and Statues
- Naval Matters
- Northern Politics During War
- Northern Society
- Overland Campaign
- Peninsula campaign 1862
- Postbellum Politics
- Postbellum Society
- Reconstruction
- Secession and the Interregnum
- Siege of Petersburg
- Slavery
- Southern Society
- Technology
- The election of 1860
- The election of 1864
- The election of 1868
- The Election of 1872
- The election of 1920
- The Grant Administration
- Uncategorized
- Veterans
- Vicksburg Campaign
- War Consequences
- World Culture
- World History
- World War I
Subscribe by Feed
Subscribe by Email
Tag Archives: Maine
coal comfort
From the New York Tribune (Image 2) on January 13, 1918: Later on at Image 10 the editors tried the power of suggestion to warm things up: the relative heat in Tampa Bay, more moderate temps in Atlantic City, and … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, World War I
Tagged coal, fire departments, firemen, Hoboken New Jersey, Maine, New York City, winter
Leave a comment
“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
at Independence Hall
In late August 1866 President Andrew Johnson and entourage embarked on a two and a half week “Swing Around the Circle” tour to try to influence the 1866 midterm elections in favor of more conservative, Democrat candidates opposed to Radical … Continue reading
work on
Thankfully the American Civil War ended in 1865. Apparently the federal government felt it could let down its defenses a bit on the nation’s northeast corner. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 30, 1865: The coast batteries in Maine dismantled. … Continue reading
as Maine goes?
The New-York Times was elated that Maine’s Republican governor Samuel Cony was re-elected. Possibly the “first gun” in the campaign was Vermont’s election of Republicans for all three U.S. House Representatives on September 6th. The same link shows Maine electing … Continue reading
Three Year Trek from Rockland
From The New-York Times June 18, 1861: THE FOURTH REGIMENT OF MAINE. ROCKLAND, Me., Monday, June 17. The Maine Fourth Regiment, Col. BERRY, 1,100 men left for the seat of war as 11 A.M. to-day, in the steamer Daniel Webster. … Continue reading
