Historian finds newspaper from 1864 in archives

Register-Star ^ | November 28, 2013

[OldNewYork]

Interesting. Thanks for posting this.

“In 1865, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train passed by the rail station in Stuyvesant according to a printed schedule.”

This was a relative’s first memory, seeing his funeral procession. And another, on my mother’s side, had her first job sewing the black (silk?) crepe for it.

[djf]

A small area called Sharon Twnshp., east of the Hudson.

He, his wife, and a son or two are buried in a cemetery on private property east of Troy.

I grew up in the Finger Lakes area and went to school in Albany, so I’m quite familiar with those parts of the state.
NYC, not so much, and having been there a couple times, I don’t miss it at all!

[Bedford Forrest]

I believe the listed officers were all from NY units - several of them were taken at Bayou Boeuf, now part of Thibodeaux, LA. The reference to Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hannah is purely whimsical and stems from Jerry Reed’s kick ass song ‘Amos Moses’. For a truly fine treatment of Confederate operations against the invaders in south Louisiana, see ‘Destruction and Reconstruction”, by LtGen Richard Taylor, CSA, [son of Zachary Taylor] who was personally involved in many of the actions

[GeronL]

Seems to have a very cool history behind it

[BroJoeK]

yefragetuwrabrumuy: "For example, when blacks who worked for the Confederate military applied for retirement which was paid by the US government to retired Confederate soldiers, if they had an enlisted military rank, it was struck through by the paymasters, and replaced with a handwritten 'servant'."

Ha! You guys never, ever quit, do you?
You just must, must rewrite every available history to suit your own Lost Cause purposes, don't you?

So let me ask, do you even know the real truth of this matter, or did you just make this up out of whole cloth?
Here is the truth of the matter:

"At the same time that pension requirements were becoming more liberal [for Union veterans], several Southern congressmen attempted to open up the Federal system to Confederate veterans.

Proponents justified such a move by noting that Southerners had contributed to Federal pensions through indirect taxes since the end of the war.
These proposals met with mixed responses in both North and the South, but overwhelmingly, opposition came from those financially comfortable Confederate veterans and southern politicians who regarded such dependency on Federal assistance a dishonor to the Lost Cause.

It should be noted that impoverished Southern veterans frequently were not averse to the prospect of receiving Federal pensions.
In any event, no such law ever passed, and Confederate veterans and their widows never matriculated into the Federal pension system."

Of course, pensions were paid by former Confederate state governments to their veterans, amongst whom were doubtless some black soldiers whose claimed military rank was changed by those Confederate state governments from whatever to "servant".

Indeed, since by all accounts there were far more black Union soldiers (178,000) than actual black Confederate soldiers (3,273 claimed to be veterans in 1890), one wonders if maybe a certain confusion had already set in as to who, exactly, was on which side?
We see that today in the numbers who can correctly name Lincoln's political party, or the party of slave-holders.

Of course, I understand how tempting it is to accuse others of your own sins -- Democrat politicos make their livings doing that -- but it only works if nobody knows what really happened.

And it's not pretty, so you need to stop it.

;-)

[Betis70]

There’s an app for that.

I use an iPhone app that scans via photo, turns the scan into a regular .pdf file. One of the most useful apps I’ve ever used—I scan in bills and payments sent so I always have a copy at hand if needed.

I also ‘scan’ my large format negatives (4x5 and 5x7 inch) using my DSLR and a light box. Cheaper and good enough quality for web postings. A quality scanner that can handle large format is $700-1000.