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Tag Archives: South Carolina
the three exemptions
Apparently 150 years ago the United States was free from pestilence and civil strife: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it behooves a people sensible of their dependence on the Almighty publicly and collectively … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, American Culture, American Society, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Benjamin Franklin Butler, Charleston, Grace Church (Charleston), Lee Monument (Richmond), Pilgrims, Puritans, Robert E. Lee, South Carolina, Thanksgiving, The Rev. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1855-1898), Ulysses S. Grant
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minority majority president
160 years ago four different candidates divvied up the votes in the United States presidential election. Republican party candidate Abraham Lincoln won a plurality (about 40%) of the popular vote on November 6, 1860, but under the United States Constitution’s … Continue reading
dark deed in broad daylight
In mid-October 1868 The New-York Times reported that Benjamin F. Randolph, a black clergyman and Republican state legislator, was murdered in South Carolina. In its November 21, 1868 issue, Harper’s Weekly reprinted the report of a Charleston newspaper: MURDER OF … Continue reading
death down south
In early June 1868 two black men fought a duel in South Carolina; one of the men was mortally wounded. A northern editorial thought that duels in general were absurd, tragic, and barbaric, but saw this particular duel as a … Continue reading
war musing
war orphan glee club road crew All the images were published in the September 16, 1917 issue of The New-York Times and can be found at the Library of Congress This past Sunday afternoon I was in a reverie, a … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, War Consequences, World War I
Tagged 69th New York, South Carolina, World War I
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Sickles sacked
President Andrew Johnson made some changes in August 1867. He suspended Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and named General Ulysses Grant the ad interim War Secretary. The president then ordered the acting secretary to remove Phil Sheridan as commander of … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Andrew Johnson, Daniel Sickles, Duncan Lamont Clinch, Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Fort Moultrie, James Duncan (Andersonville), John Mercer Langston, North Carolina, Reconstruction, Robert Anderson, Second Military District (Reconstruction), South Carolina, Ulysses S. Grant, Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure, Winfield Scott Hancock
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corrections
From The New-York Times January 24, 1867: No More Negroes to be Sold in Maryland … ANNAPOLIS, Wednesday, Jan. 23. The Maryland Legislature have passed an act abolishing an article in the code permitting the sale of negroes into slavery … 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
“the Government of Freedmen.”
150 years ago this week New Yorkers could read about South Carolina’s enactment of a Black Code for the governance of freedmen. Eric Foner summarizes the code, which: contained provisions, such as prohibiting the expulsion of aged freedmen from plantations, … Continue reading
nullified?
150 years ago today the South Carolina state constitutional convention repealed the December 20, 1860 Ordinance of Secession. From The New-York Times September 19, 1865: THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION.; Repeal of the Ordinance of Secession. BOSTON, Monday, Sept. 18. The … Continue reading
