Episodes Nearest to January 1, 1875 to December 31, 1875: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Lee Sarcophagus Moved to Lexington
    date 1875map ROCKBRIDGE, Virginiatags Education, War

    Showing great dedication and remembrance of General Robert E. Lee, who died in 1870, the administration of The Virginia Military Academy and the local government of Lexington, Virginia made a grand affair of the arrival of his sarcophagus. <br /> It seemed the trend of the year to be remembering the man, as similar action happened at Washington and Lee University, where he was buried. The...

  2. Hitting Shore With a Vengeance
    date 1875map SOMERSET, Marylandtags Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Haynie Bradshaw thanked God every time he arrived back on shore. Oystermen were reputed to be daring and unscrupulous men, who regard[ed] neither the laws of God nor the laws of man, but Bradshaw was a devout Methodist who sometimes led services on Sunday. As an oysterman, Bradshaw dredged the Chesapeake Bay aboard one of the infamous bugeye boats. It was a terrible living. Crews received one third...

  3. African American Religious Communities
    date 1875map LIBERTY, Georgiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Race-Relations

    Old Midway Church in Liberty County, Georgia served as a place where both whites and blacks came together to worship in antebellum society. A Congregational polity, its members opposed secession, but the rising tensions brought on by the Civil War resulted in the termination of communication between the Church and its fellow congregations in the North. During Reconstruction, a white Congregational...

  4. Importance of Education
    date 1875map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Education

    A focused, open-minded man capable of sound reasoning and clear expression- these, according to John Broadus, were the characteristics distinguishing an educated man. The Baptist minister was a fierce advocate of higher education and lamented the fact that many young men attended schooling in their younger years, but, when about to enter the potential peak of their intellectual growth, chose to...

  5. Vogue:  Women’s Nineteenth Century Fashion
    date 1875map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Women, Arts/Leisure

    The changing role of nineteenth century women from a worker on the farm to a woman of society was reflected in fashion transformations, with fashion magazines that spoke directly to women, stating that “every lady loves it.”  Magazine stressed the novelty and desirability of the clothing pictured.  MME Demorest’s Illustrated Portfolio of the Fashions was a popular biannual women’s magazine,...

  6. An Experience of Mutual Criticism
    date 1875map MADISON, New Yorktags Religion, Utopian Societies

    Beginning in 1846 John Humphrey Noyes began to gather around him a group of “perfectionists” which would soon become the Oneida Community. This communistic, utopian society was based in the idea that true holiness came from communal living and the termination of monogamy with a focus on studying the Bible and becoming better individuals. The Oneidas believed that the second coming of Christ...

  7. Near Death at the Hands of the Ku Klux Klan
    date January 9, 1875 to 1875map POWELL, Kentuckytags African-Americans, Crime/Violence

    Race relations during and after Reconstruction were tense. Many whites had never dealt with free blacks and many free blacks had never been free. White Anglo-Saxon Protestant groups such as the Ku Klux Klan were formed in an attempt to maintain the status quo that had arisen over the past two centuries. Through acts of violence and intimidation, Ku Klux members aimed to scare free blacks into adopting...

  8. The Great Democratic Procession
    date June 26, 1875map WARREN, Mississippitags Arts/Leisure, Politics, Women

    In the summer of 1875, Jane Pryor of Vicksburg, Mississippi wrote a warm letter to Caroline Kiger of Warren County in anticipation of the coming week's political events. Encouraging Mrs. Kiger's husband to come to Vicksburg, Pryor wrote: tell him to try and be here 24th in the Great Democratic procession at 6 o'clock in the afternoon that will be tomorrow & we will show him the elegant...

  9. The Great Democratic Procession
    date June 26, 1875map WARREN, Mississippitags Politics, Women

    In the summer of 1875, Jane Pryor of Vicksburg, Mississippi wrote a warm letter to Caroline Kiger of Warren County in anticipation of the coming week's political events. Encouraging Mrs. Kiger's husband to come to Vicksburg, Pryor wrote: tell him to try and be here 24th in the Great Democratic procession at 6 o'clock in the afternoon that will be tomorrow & we will show him the elegant...

  10. Manufacturing in post-War Mississippi
    date July, 1875map ADAMS, Mississippitags Agriculture, Economy, Race-Relations

    Did we learn anything from the War? The Natchez Weekly Democrat, a local newspaper located in Natchez, Mississippi, asked this question of its readers in more polite terms. In July, 1875, the newspaper lamented the lack of economic development in the form of manufacturing over the previous years in the surrounding area. Southerners in all parts of the former Confederacy were aware that...

  11. Professorship at The University
    date July 25, 1875map ORANGE, Virginiatags Economy, Education

    Ambition ran high for distinguished men of wealthy Virginia families. For these men, there were relatively few jobs besides running a plantation that were suitable for those in their station. One of these jobs was to be a professor at a prestigious university. On July 25th, 1875, John Jaquelin Ambler wrote his brother from Lynchburg about an open professorship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,...

  12. Professorship at The University
    date July 25, 1875map ORANGE, Vermonttags Education

    Ambition ran high for distinguished men of wealthy Virginia families. For these men, there were relatively few jobs besides running a plantation that were suitable for those in their station. One of these jobs was to be a professor at a prestigious university. On July 25th, 1875, John Jaquelin Ambler wrote his brother from Lynchburg about an open professorship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,...

  13. WANTED
    date July 31, 1875map JACKSON, Mississippitags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Slavery

    A wanted ad for a man named Jeff Williams appeared in The Daily Mississippi Pilot?s reward section. Williams was a convict who escaped while under lease to a family and working on the Noxubee river levee. The Governor of Mississippi offered 50 dollars for someone to arrest and take Williams to the state penitentiary. The description of the man at large was listed. Along with including his height...

  14. Mississippi Democrats enact the “Mississippi Plan'
    date May, 1875 to November, 1875map JACKSON, Mississippitags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Led by James Z. George and L.Q.C Lamar, Mississippi Democrats made plans to drive the local Republicans from office. The plan was to lure freedman with promises of protected civil rights and to threaten those who remained faithful to the Republicans. By the summer of 1875 the Democrats had created extralegal militias to encourage conversion by means of violence and intimidation. <br /> This...

  15. Grant Administration embroiled in Whiskey Ring Scandal
    date May 1, 1875 to May 11, 1875map ST. LOUIS, Missouritags Crime/Violence, Economy

    In May 1875 Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow struck down upon the infamous Whisky Ring, a public scandal deemed impregnable due to powerful connections, until Bristlow hired private contractors to research the fraud. After the siezure 3 million in taxes was recovered and 110 of the more then 200 persons indicted, 110 were convicted, although President Grant's private secretary Orville...

  16. Southern Democrats reduce spending of State Governments
    date April, 1875 to May, 1875map JACKSON, Mississippitags Economy

    Led by mostly straight Democrats, many southern states including Mississippi and Alabama reduced their economic cost in 1875. The point of these operations was to return the states to fiscal balance and regain power, abolishing their debts. These southern states halted the funding and economic partnership with the railroads, reducing their economic leverage. They also shrank the size and cost of...

  17. Townsmen Pledge to End the Sale of Liquor in Central Virginia
    date May 13, 1875 to February 9, 1876map LOUISA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Law

    Dr. Baldwin Buckner, a physician from Louisa County, Virginia, was a determined and resolute man. He held fast to his beliefs in spite of outside pressures that urged him to do otherwise. Buckner refused to give his son, Horace, any extra funds besides those that were sufficient to cover his boarding expenses while he was teaching. In letters that Horace wrote in 1875 and 1876, he made a desperate...

  18. Women's Inheritance Rights
    date July 1, 1875 to 1875map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags Agriculture, Law, Women

    In July 1875, Judith Page Rives wrote her last will and testament in which she left two thirds of her twelve hundred acres to her son Alfred and four hundred acres to her daughter Ella. She also gave Ella all of her jewelry and clothing, including a diamond brooch valued at 14,000 dollars. Mrs. Rives also left Ella her stocks. If Ella never married, Mrs. Rives wished for her to live with one of...

  19. Attorney General William on Enforcement Acts
    date April 2, 1875map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Government, Politics, Race-Relations, Crime/Violence, African-Americans

    The Colfax massacre of 1872, believed to be the most devastating occurrence of racial violence during Reconstruction, resulted in the death of around 150 freedmen at the hands of white supremacists. The events at Colfax resulted in only three men to convicted. However, disagreement led to the case entering the Supreme Court in the form of United States v. Cruikshank in 1876. The case brought...

  20. Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of Amercian Board of Commissioners
    date October 6, 1875map COOK, Illinoistags Missionaries, Religion

    The American Board of Commissioners met on October 6, 1875, to discuss foreign religious missions. The meetings were held every day and lasted for about one week. The committee consisted of 207 members, of whom 116 were clergymen and ninety-one were laymen. Inside the Board there was another committee that handled all expenses and missionary affairs. That committee was called the Prudential...

  21. Missouri's Third State Constitution Adopted
    date October 30, 1875map JEFFERSON, Missouritags Government, Law

    For the second time in less than 10 years, Missouri had written a new State Constitution

    which was up for ratification by the citizens of the state. The New York Times reported that

    the third Missouri Constitution was well on its way to passing by a wide margin with 8,245 votes

    for the Constitution and 1,042 against it in the city of St. Louis alone. For close to twenty towns...

  22. Growing Dissent
    date January 27, 1875map JEFFERSON, Mississippitags Government, Law, Politics, War

    An article appeared in The Vicksburg Herald discussing the widespread outrage from military occupation in Vicksburg. The article said that lately the officers who were supposed to keep the South in line had begun to overstep their original duties and were getting involved in both civil and local matters in the city. The president had apologized for the officer?s actions and said he was unaware of...

  23. Turncoat at the Mollie Trials
    date September 3, 1875 to March 26, 1876map CARBON, Pennsylvaniatags Labor Union, Murder, Trial

    In 1876 the New York Times published an article describing the murder trial of John P. Jones , a mine boss of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company. It was widely believed that Jones murderers were members of the secretive and violent Irish labor union called the Molly Maguires. During this time stories of the Mollies murdering mine bosses that crossed the group were very common.

    A very...

  24. Resumption Act
    date January, 1875map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Economy

    The Resumption Act of 1875 was intended to shift America away from the paper currency “greenbacks' that had developed during the Civil war and to return to a gold standard. This was largely accepted except by those who promoted a silver standard as well, who felt that greenbacks were good because they could be traded for either gold or silver. This act provided for the redemption of US...

  25. The Wedding of Dolly Burge's Daughter
    date December 16, 1875map NEWTON, Georgiatags Women

    Dolly Burge recorded in her diary feelings about events that happened in her life and impacted her. Her daughter's departure for college completely devastated Burge. Since her husband had died, it meant that she was living without her family. When her daughter decided to get married, it devastated her even more. She wrote about how upset she was in her diary entries. Burge felt that she had...