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Tag Archives: Northern propaganda
when?
In the same issue that featured articles on Cold Harbor and the Georgia campaign and startling images of starved Union prisoners, the June 18, 1864 Harper’s Weekly (at Son of the South) published a poem by a member of President … Continue reading
“the suppressic veri and the suggestio falsi”
going to hurt me more than you? From the June 11, 1864 edition of Harper’s Weekly at Son of the South: Also 150 years ago this week, a Richmond paper noticed that Union Secretary of War Stanton’s telegrams to General … Continue reading
marry the family
Mary, the family In April 1864 a Democrat newspaper in Seneca County, New York reprinted some alleged investigative journalism by a New York City publication: Treason at the White House. The Tribune a few days ago asserted that Mrs. J. … Continue reading
Scalped?
“Beauty and Booty”, “ruthless tyrant’s march”, “Hessians”. So far the South has found lots of ways to put down the North and strike a little extra fear into the hearts of Southerners as the Union army invades. 150 years ago … Continue reading
Bedroom Politics
This cartoon was published in the May 31, 1862 issue of Harper’s Weekly, which you can read at Son of the South. I think the cartoonist might be lampooning Confederate politicians for thinking about fleeing Virginia as the Union armies … Continue reading
