Episodes Nearest to March 29, 1876: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Limbs for Sale
    date March 29, 1876map YAZOO, Mississippitags Health/Death, War

    In a March edition of The Weekly Clarion in 1876, there was an advertisement for artificial limbs. Chas M. Evans was the supposed manufacturer of artificial limbs of the best quality. He had just recently lowered the prices of the limbs along with other enticements to show his southern patronage to former Confederate soldiers and citizens. Evans claimed that he would allow each customer...

  2. The Unexplored Riches of West Virginia
    date April 10, 1876map KANAWHA, West Virginiatags Economy

    "I may perhaps startle and astonish gentlemen upon this floor when I assert that West Virginia, the variety, quality and magnitude of her coal-fields and in the extent and quality of her iron ores, is capable of becoming, for its territorial area, one of the most productive States of this Union." Representative Charles Faulkner of West Virginia, in his April 1876 address to the United States House...

  3. A Celebration For Lincoln
    date April 14, 1876tags African-Americans, Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations, Slavery, War

    On April 14, 1876, Frederick Douglass delivered an oration in celebration of the unveiling of the Lincoln memorial. This oration was more than a celebration of Abraham Lincoln, it was also a celebration of African-Americans' knowledge of their nation and its truth. The people who congregated on April 14, 1876 in such high spirits did so in a celebration of the efforts they had made to make the...

  4. Raleigh Baptist Answers the Call of the Holy Spirit
    date March 5, 1876 to March 12, 1876map WAKE, North Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity

    The Baptists of Raleigh overflowed in the street outside the meeting house where Elder F.M. Jordan preached the gospel that night. The following day, March 6, 1876, the Holy Spirit called J.S. Allen, one of Jordan's followers, to build a meeting house to hold all of his Brother and Sister Baptists who wished to worship. Mrs. Hufman, a fellow Baptist, relayed the Holy Spirit's message to...

  5. Educational Improvements in North Carolina
    date March 8, 1876map CASWELL, North Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Women

    Mary Graves never imagined that she would be offered a teaching position in Caswell County when she visited as a guest preacher to local Presbyterian congregations from her Leesburg, Virginia home in 1876.Yet, Mary was offered a teaching position, and to her own surprise, left her home in Leesburg and moved to Caswell County to begin her teaching career. She accepted the position on the basis that...

  6. Hired Laborers on the Farms of Central Virginia
    date January 24, 1876map FLUVANNA, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    In 1876, Dr. Cary C. Cocke, the owner of a large plantation in Fluvanna County, Virginia, was concerned about the security of one of his major investments, his crops. On January 24, 1876 Cocke received a letter from a store in Richmond, Virginia; the author of the letter regretfully informed Cocke that the wheat received from Cocke's farm fell short of the desired weight. At the time that...

  7. Record-Setting Railroad
    date June 1, 1876 to June 4, 1876map HUDSON, New Jerseytags Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Science/Technology

    Shrouded in a mist of smoke and steam, the train lurched into the station. Having completed its cross-country trip more than four hours ahead of schedule, the Transcontinental Express finally ground to a halt. The Friends' Intelligencer claimed that the trip, leaving from Jersey City at 1:00 A.M. on June 1, 1876 and arriving in San Francisco approximately half past nine on the morning...

  8. The Proper Influence of a Woman
    date January 18, 1876map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    Armed with biblical justification found in the book of Genesis, Reverend W. E. Edwards preached at length to a great crowd at the Granby Street Methodist Church, concerning the proper role of women. He claimed Eve's involvement in the first human sin left her with certain characteristics that trickled down to even the women seated there before him. In all women, Edwards claimed one found a...

  9. A Controversial Election and the Centennial
    date June 22, 1876map ROANOKE, Virginiatags Politics

    According to The Conservative in the year 1876, the Republican Party and current government were a group of corrupt and tyrant radicals. A local newspaper of Roanoke, Virginia, The Conservative had an obvious Democratic view. In an article dated June 22, 1876, the newspaper addressed the nomination of a Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes.

    Just before...

  10. Aint whistlin Dixie no more
    date January 1, 1876map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence, Government, Health/Death, War

    The pictures of men from Auschwitz still loom in the minds of many Americans; however, our historical memory has lead us to forget the horrors we inflicted upon our own brothers during the Civil War. "No," was the common response to Confederate requests to trade Union and rebel POWs. The result was the needless deaths of thousands of men on both sides due to malnourishment, lack of medical care,...

  11. Evacuation: A Last Resort for Health- Seeking Citizens of Savannah
    date 1876map CHATHAM, Georgiatags Diseases in the south, urban history

    Evacuation in Savannah during the year 1876 was something that people in the city wanted to avoid at all costs. Unfortunately, in many cases there was simply no other option. Yellow fever struck Savannah in 1876. People began to move out of the city as soon as the disease began to spread. The immense amount of worry about the disease and its terrible symptoms caused citizens to flee the city. An...

  12. Triumph of The People
    date July 1, 1876 to July 5, 1876map FRANKLIN, Kentuckytags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Government, Politics

    The skyline was illuminated with fireworks and gunfire when Kentucky got wind of the ratification of Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hendricks, on the Democratic ticket, for the presidential election of 1876. Once word of the nominations reached Frankfort county and the town of Franklin celebrations began immediately, "One Hundred guns were fired from Taylor's Hills, and bonfires and illuminations...

  13. 100-Years to Remember
    date July 3, 1876 to July 4, 1876map JEFFERSON, Kentuckytags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Government, Politics

    The streets were packed and a euphoric energy filled the air as the men women and children of Louisville, Kentucky played their role in the largest county, as well as national, display of patriotism executed to date. Louisville, Kentucky put forth an immaculate display of admiration and tribute in their celebrations of the Centennial. On the night of July 3, Mayor Charles D. Jacob requested...

  14. Politics and Religion at the Centennial
    date July 4, 1876map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Government, Politics, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The young man unfolded the newspaper tucked under his arm and read aloud: "Ah-hem, 'To-day is the Fourth of July--the Centennial Fourth--and as it comes only once in a hundred years-'"

    "That's interesting," interrupted a passerby. "What is happening here?"

    "Well," the man scanned down the page. "At sunrise some cannons were fired 38 times, one for each state... hmm. This...

  15. The Centennial (un)Celebration
    date July 4, 1876map GREENVILLE, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Government, Politics, Race-Relations

    July 4, 1876 should have been a day of extraordinary celebration throughout the nation as the United States of America's Centennial birthday. Strangely, the only reference to a celebration in Greenville, S.C. was a small paragraph entitled "Our Centennial Offer" in the local newspaper, The Enterprise and Mountaineer. "On the 4th of July, 1876, we will present a 60 Weed Sewing-Machine,...

  16. Atlanta Celebrates America's One-Hundredth Birthday
    date July 4, 1876map FULTON, Georgiatags Arts/Leisure, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Excitement began to spread across the country as celebrations and parties of extravagant proportions were planned and organized. A celebration of American victory and freedom, this particular Fourth of July promised to be grander than all its predecessors. The year was 1876, and America was turning one-hundred years old. Of no exception to this national excitement was the up and coming southern...

  17. Hamburg Massacre
    date July 4, 1876 to July 5, 1876map LEXINGTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On July 4 a Black militia gathered in Hamburg, South Carolina, a center of Reconstruction and Black power, to celebrate the nation's centennial. A white farmer arrived on the scene and ordered the militia to move aside for their carriage. Although the militia eventually opened ranks, the next day the farmer demanded to a state justice that the leader of the militia, Dock Adams, be arrested...

  18. Riots at Louisiana Republican Convention
    date July 8, 1876map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Crime/Violence

    After more than a week of meetings, the Louisiana Republicans finally nominated former U.S. Marshall Stephen Packard as their candidate for governor. It appeared from the beginning of the convention that former Louisiana governor, Henry C. Warmouth, would collect the party's nomination, but President Grant declared that if Warmouth headed the ticket, not a single soldier would assist in his...

  19. Brillant Meteors on July 8, 1876
    date July 8, 1876map LAGRANGE, Indianatags Science/Technology

    A brilliant glow filled the sky over the northeast United States. Four days after the centennial celebration of our country, a meteor passed over Ohio and Michigan around 9 pm. The Chicago Tribune stated that, "The meteor was a very brilliant one. It lighted up the sky like the glare of a calcium light; the intensity being several times greater than the light of the full moon." Due...

  20. A Fourth of July Celebration Gone Wrong
    date July 4, 1876 to July 16, 1876map EDGEFIELD, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law, Race-Relations

    On July 15 and 16, 1876, the United States House of Representatives met in Washington, D.C. to debate the meaning and consequences of a racial disagreement and subsequent massacre that had taken place in the city of Hamburg, South Carolina on the fourth and fifth of July in that same year, the nation's centennial. A seat of racial tension, particularly because of an established African American...

  21. 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...

  22. Staunton Citizens Make Excursion with Various Temperance Organizations
    date July 11, 1876map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    In July 1876 the various temperance organizations of the city of Staunton, Virginia organized a day-long excursion by train involving between two and three hundred citizens, almost all of whom were organization members. The day was filled with an atmosphere of goodwill and entertainment. According to the local newspaper, The Spectator, upon arrival at the excursion's destination...

  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. Prairie Farmer Breaks News of Custer Disaster
    date July 15, 1876map BIG HORN, Montanatags Government, Native-Americans, Race-Relations, War

    "It proved a rash and disastrous venture," noted the Prairie Farmer in criticism of Lieutenant-General George Custer's effort "to divide his regiment into two detachments - one under the command of Major Reno, and the other commanded by himself - make wide detours and flank the enemy." On June 25, 1876, Custer and his 7th U.S. Cavalry came upon a village of combined Lakota, Northern...

  25. Passage of the Hawaiian Treaty Bill
    date August 14, 1876map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Agriculture, Economy

    Concurrent resolutions of the Hawaiian Treaty bill passed both houses in mid-August of 1876. Much to the dismay of Southern rice and sugar plantation owners, the bill removed the import duty on rice and sugar from the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. <br />“To remove the duty from rice would be to diminish its price below the cost of production in this country and 300,000 people...