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A good deal of Civil War journalism was written in NYC. The problem is that military news from the Richmond/Maryland theater arrived in a day. News from the naval operations, from the Mississippi River or from the far west, might take days or weeks to get to NYC. Hence it tended to disappear in the rush to create copy.
The US capture of Island No. 10, in the Mississippi River, in April of 1862 provides an example. When a US gunboat ran past the fort at night, it led to the fall of the fort within a week. The ability of steam engine powered vessel to run past a well constructed fort became a crucial part of the war for 14 months, yet it was not covered.
History had the chance to keep track of the events across the entire nation and compile an accurate timeline of those things that mattered. But this was not done.
It started with not realizing that the Midwest states were growing so fast, that by the time the preliminary report of the census was published, in May 1862, it was obsolete. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1862/dec/1860e.html
The diagram on page 120 of the fourth section demonstrated that the results on George Washington's experiment were conclusive. The states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois had dramatically outgrown the south. Abolishing slavery had not hurt New York or Pennsylvania, just the opposite. By 1860, four of the five most populous states were in the northern section of the US. The midwest was experiencing explosive growth.
Few writers, other than Prof. Gallagher, realized that the US, by the first week of June 1862, had captured all the private, public and closed navy yards in the eleven secessionist states. See p. 107. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1862/dec/1860e.html
The Confederacy could survive without Memphis, New Orleans, Pensacola naval yard and Norfolk, but the US navy was gradually going to have a free hand. The US had more than enough money to build and man whatever vessels it needed.
The US effort to suppress the Confederacy always looked worse than it really was. The economy was growing fastest away from NYC. And the war was going best for the US in the most remote places.
The US capture of Island No. 10, in the Mississippi River, in April of 1862 provides an example. When a US gunboat ran past the fort at night, it led to the fall of the fort within a week. The ability of steam engine powered vessel to run past a well constructed fort became a crucial part of the war for 14 months, yet it was not covered.
History had the chance to keep track of the events across the entire nation and compile an accurate timeline of those things that mattered. But this was not done.
It started with not realizing that the Midwest states were growing so fast, that by the time the preliminary report of the census was published, in May 1862, it was obsolete. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1862/dec/1860e.html
The diagram on page 120 of the fourth section demonstrated that the results on George Washington's experiment were conclusive. The states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois had dramatically outgrown the south. Abolishing slavery had not hurt New York or Pennsylvania, just the opposite. By 1860, four of the five most populous states were in the northern section of the US. The midwest was experiencing explosive growth.
Few writers, other than Prof. Gallagher, realized that the US, by the first week of June 1862, had captured all the private, public and closed navy yards in the eleven secessionist states. See p. 107. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1862/dec/1860e.html
The Confederacy could survive without Memphis, New Orleans, Pensacola naval yard and Norfolk, but the US navy was gradually going to have a free hand. The US had more than enough money to build and man whatever vessels it needed.
The US effort to suppress the Confederacy always looked worse than it really was. The economy was growing fastest away from NYC. And the war was going best for the US in the most remote places.
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