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mapsontheweb · 14 days
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Map posted by the National Union Executive Committee for Lincoln's reelection campaign showing the stage of the war by 1864 showing Confederate territorial control. The CSA had lost KY, TN and most of AR by then. With each state's respective Confederate state governments being driven out of their st
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rockyp77mk3 · 2 months
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GETTYSBURG — Located inside the Rose Woods, the monument to the Irish Brigade was dedicated in 1888. Fighting in and around The Wheatfield on July 2, 1863, this famed fighting unit under the command of Colonel Patrick Kelly consisted of the 63rd, 69th, and 88th New York Infantry Regiments, along with the 28th Massachusetts and 116th Pennsylvania. The monument features a Celtic cross and a life sized Irish wolfhound.
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todaysdocument · 27 days
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Nomination of Ulysses S. Grant as Lieutenant General of the Army
Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Anson McCook Collection of Presidential Signatures
Executive Mansion, Washington, February 28, 1864 To the Senate of the United States I nominate Ulysses S. Grant, now a Major General in the Military service, to be Lieutenant General in the Army of the United States. Abraham Lincoln
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jadagul · 5 months
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could you elaborate on that bit about the 14th amendment, if you don't mind?
So I heard this from @necarion so he can probably fill in more details.
But my understanding is that after the US Civil War, Congress wanted to do a bunch of stuff to protect civil rights and kill off Jim Crow racism style laws. And the explicit purpose of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were to say that Congress could make those laws.
So the fourteenth amendment says
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ... The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
And then the fifteenth says
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude— Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
And these are really explicit claims that Congress can protect civil rights and voting rights by passing laws.
But the Supreme Court was much more racist and southern conservative than Congress was. So when Congress actually passed those laws, the Supreme Court said they were overreaches and exceeded Congress's power under the Constitution. Despite them passing actual amendments to say "we have the power to pass these laws."
In the process, SCOTUS basically read the Privileges and Immunities Clause out of the Constitution entirely. Which is why in the 1960s the incorporation had to work through "substantive due process", which is another example "good policy through kinda bullshit reasoning". But they wouldn't have needed to do it that way if they hadn't sworn up and down that the actual clause intended to have that effect meant nothing.
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karagin22 · 21 days
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Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) "Dinah, Portrait of a Negress" (c. 1867) Oil on board Located in the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, United States In the Book of Genesis, Dinah was the seventh child and only daughter of Leah and Jacob, and one of the matriarchs of the Israelites. In 19th-century America, "Dinah" became a generic name for an enslaved African woman. At the 1850 Woman's Rights Convention in New York, a speech by Sojourner Truth was reported on in the New York Herald, which used the name "Dinah" to symbolize black womanhood as represented by Truth:
In a convention where sex and color are mingled together in the common rights of humanity, Dinah, and Burleigh, and Lucretia, and Frederick Douglas [sic], are all spiritually of one color and one sex, and all on a perfect footing of reciprocity. Most assuredly, Dinah was well posted up on the rights of woman, and with something of the ardor and the odor of her native Africa, she contended for her right to vote, to hold office, to practice medicine and the law, and to wear the breeches with the best white man that walks upon God's earth.
Lizzie McCloud, a slave on a Tennessee plantation during the American Civil War, recalled that Union soldiers called all enslaved women "Dinah." Describing her fear when the Union army arrived, she said: "We was so scared we run under the house and the Yankees called 'Come out Dinah' (didn't call none of us anything but Dinah). They said 'Dinah, we're fightin' to free you and get you out from under bondage.'" The name Dinah was subsequently used for dolls and other images of black women.
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dailyhistoryposts · 7 months
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On This Day In History
September 1st, 1864: The Confederate Army evacuated Atlanta, Georgia, ending a four-month siege by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. This was a major victory for the North, helping get Lincoln re-elected and setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea, later that same year.
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victusinveritas · 17 days
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July 10th, 1863 menu for Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore.
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leveragehunters · 6 months
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I saw this comic and was instantly catapulted to the beginning of my great grandfather's memoirs. To wit:
About the time Grandfather left the farm for Wyoming, his sons Robert and Hugh left to homestead in Saskatchewan. Alex, the youngest son, had already homesteaded in Manitoba, and the other brother had left for the Civil War. This would be a good place to relate an incident told to me by Father. When the brother left for the U.S.A., Father walked with him to Sarnia to see him across the St. Clair River on the ice to Port Huron. The river was frozen except for a ten foot gap at the centre. The brother said goodbye, took a running jump and landed on the other side. Father then threw his baggage, a gunny sack of duffle, across the water. They waved, and Father watched him disappear on the other side. Nothing was heard of him after that.
He says a few paragraphs earlier:
The next eldest, whose name has slipped away from me, enlisted in the American Civil War and was never heard of again.
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warsofasoiaf · 24 days
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We know that just prior to the outbreak of the US civil war, Robert E Lee was summoned to Washington and offered command of the US army in putting down the southern rebels and that he turned down the offer because it meant fighting against his beloved Virginia. I have read your previous comments on Lee being too traditional in his mindset of warfare. So my question is this, had Lee accepted the role, do you imagine he would have lasted long as overall commander or would he have been replaced?
Given that his early performance was a rather unimpressive failure at Cheat Mountain, I think he would have been replaced at the top the same way Irwin McDowell was.
Thanks for the question, Anon.
SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King
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vox-anglosphere · 7 months
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More soldiers died in the Civil War than in all other US wars combined
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rockyp77mk3 · 3 months
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"The Twentieth Maine" by H. Charles McBarron.
The 20TH Maine being nearly out of ammunition and desperate to hold the flank of the Union forces was ordered by COL Chamberlain to charge the Confederate forces with fixed bayonets. With Chamberlain in the lead, the bayonet charge down Little Round Top was so unexpected and violent that it successfully pushed the Confederate forces back and destroyed the attack on the vulnerable Union flank. 2 July 1863.
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todaysdocument · 29 days
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Letter from Alexander T. Augusta to Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana Regarding a Street Car Incident
Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's OfficeSeries: Personal Papers of Medical Officers and PhysiciansFile Unit: Augusta, A.T., 1863-66
Washington, D. C., February 8th 1864. Hon. C. A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War. Sir, I have the honor to report that your request of this date to forward to the Department an account of the outrage committed upon me by the Conductor of Car No. 32, of the City Railway Co., last week, has been received, and the following are the facts connected therewith:- I had been summoned at attend a Court Martial as a witness in the case of Private Geo: Taylor who was charged with causing the death of a colored man last August, the said colored man having died in the hospital of which I was at the time in Charge. I started from my lodging at the corner of 14th and I Streets, on the morning of February 1st for the purpose of proceeding to the hospital in order to obtain some notes relative to the case. As my time was short, and it was raining very hard at the time, I hailed the car which was passing just as I came out of the door, and it was stopped for me; but as I was in the act of entering, the conductor informed me that I would have to ride on the front of the driver. I told him I would not, and asked him why I could not ride inside. He stated that it was against the rules for colored persons to ride inside. I attempted to enter the car, and he pulled me out and ejected me from the platform. The consequence was I had to walk the whole distance through rain and mud, and was considerably detained past the hour for my attendance at Court. On my arrival, I reported the case to the Court. [full transcription at link]
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jbry · 6 months
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Colt 1851 Navy Revolver
3D printed from Thingiverse, file by danlovy
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