Tag Archives: war costs

how big the burden?

Posted on June 4, 2015 by SUMPTER

The June 4, 1865 issue of The New-York Times headlined the huge national debt that Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch reported. The following article (which we know was published sometime in May) argued that the burden of a nation’s … Continue reading →

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beauty pageant

Posted on January 1, 2015 by SUMPTER

The Battle of Franklin was already over a month old when a local newspaper reprinted the following editorial 150 years ago this month. As the war entered its fifth calendar year were the people becoming brutalized, insensate; numb to the … Continue reading →

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in black and white

Posted on October 25, 2014 by SUMPTER

red all over … but a lot less than Democrats claim. Democrat newspapers claimed the public debt would be $4 billion by the end of the war. A Republican publication calculated the debt as of September 30, 1864 as about … Continue reading →

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“the heavy hand of power”

Posted on October 24, 2014 by SUMPTER

[I originally planned to post the following back in March, but was uncertain about the timing. The local newspaper article does seem to have been influenced by the Democrats’ playbook for the 1864 election.] I am confused about the timing … Continue reading →

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“counties bounties”, &c.

Posted on February 26, 2014 by SUMPTER

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in February 1864: What it Costs New York to Raise Men for the Army. From the report of LOCKWOOD L.DOTY, Chief of Military Statistics, recently sent into the Assembly, may be obtained some … Continue reading →

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Stamp Tax

Posted on April 9, 2013 by SUMPTER

One of the ways the Revenue Act of 1862 provided funds to pay for the Civil War was by various excise and stamp taxes. Here a Richmond newspaper reports on the revenue headed to the U.S. Treasury on the death … Continue reading →

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Vulture

Posted on December 6, 2012 by SUMPTER

Vilifying the ‘virtual’ northern president, who’s actions are a stimulant to ‘determined resistance’ From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 5, 1862: The next Yankee President. Of course-Wm. H. Seward has not sold himself to the Devil for nothing. The Presidency … Continue reading →

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Pressure pointed

Posted on November 30, 2012 by SUMPTER

Counting the reasons not to go into winter quarters 150 years ago this week citizens in Richmond could read this recap of the New York Herald’s case for immediate attacks by the federal armies. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December … Continue reading →

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