ACW Sesquicentennial Newspaper Articles

[bluelake]

The USNLP (U.S. Naval Landing Party) will put up daily news, just as people 150 years ago would have seen it (except online, instead of in a paper).  


http://usnlp.org/papers/index.html


According to the head of the USNLP, Chuck Veit, "This is to announce our new Civil War resource in observation of the sesquicentennial: weekly newspaper reports from New England and various Southern newspapers. Each day is limited to about one thousand words, but the articles were chosen to provide a good sense, not only of the war, but of everyday life during the conflict. The caveat is that readers will have to be patient--we are not posting information any faster than the participants received it! The first week--the run up to Fort Sumter--is posted now at http://usnlp.org/papers/index.html (or just click the link from our main page). So everyone can be as confused and frustrated as folks in the 1860s.

If you can get this information into the hands of local teachers, it would be a big help. In Mass'tts, they study the Civil War in 10th grade."

[Trois Castors]

That is really something.......thanks for putting it up.

[Uncle Russ]

A lot of good historical reading there!
Thanks for sharing.  


Uncle Russ...

[bluelake]

The Powhatan was got ready in three days, to be put into commission, and received her complement of officers and men, about 300, on Friday. She has on board an extraordinary armament and immense quantities of shell. She carries 0 nine-inch shell-guns, and one eleven-inch shell-gun; but a large portion of her ordnance consists of ten-inch shell, consequently these are probably intended for the reinforcement of some forts, or possibly for land service. There are a number of gun carriages on board, which are only applicable to land service.

It's interesting to me, as one of the 9-inch Dahlgrens off the Powhatan is in a park in the city next to my hometown.  A park in my hometown has a 9-inch gun off the Hartford (Famous in the Battle of Mobile Bay).  At the turn of the 20th century, they were selling 9-inch guns for scrap and I think they only cost a hundred or so dollars at the time... (Of course, the dollar meant a bit more back then).