“In North Carolina there is a great deal of something that calls itself Unionism; but… it is a cheat, a Will-o’-the-wisp; and any man who trusts it will meet with overthrow. “Its quality is shown in a hundred ways. An old farmer came into Raleigh to sell a little corn. I had some talk with […]
Posts Tagged ‘sidney andrews’
Hate for Confederacy didn’t ensure love for Union
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged atlantic monthly, nc reconstruction, sidney andrews on January 29, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
In 1865 a chilly welcome awaited ‘all d—d Yankees’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged atlantic monthly, reconstruction in nc, sidney andrews on December 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“I spent September, October and November, 1865, in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia…. “I judge, from the stories told to me by various persons, that my reception was something better than that accorded to the majority of Northern men traveling in that section…. “In one of the principal towns of Western […]
N.C.’s ‘mask of nationality’ wasn’t to be trusted
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged atlantic monthly, nc reconstruction, sidney andrews on May 1, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“Much is said of the hypocrisy of the South. I found but little of it anywhere. The North-Carolinian calls himself a Unionist, but he makes no special pretence of love for the Union. “He desires many favors, but he asks them generally on the ground that he hated the Secessionists. He expects the nation to […]
‘He thought they were handy for wrapping purposes’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged charlotte nc, clay eating, nc reconstruction, sidney andrews, the atlantic monthly on December 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“In the important town of Charlotte, North Carolina, I found a white man who owned the comfortable house in which he lived, who had a wife and three half-grown children, and yet had never taken a newspaper in his life. He thought they were handy for wrapping purposes, but he couldn’t see why anybody wanted […]
A ‘wide and pitiful difference’ during Reconstruction
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged raleigh nc, reconstruction nc, sidney andrews, the atlantic monthly on September 9, 2013 | 2 Comments »
“I often had occasion to notice [in the Carolinas and Georgia] the wide and pitiful difference between the residents of the cities and large towns and the residents of the country. There is everywhere a rigid spirit of caste…. “Thus, Charleston has much intelligence, and considerable genuine culture; but go 20 miles away, and you […]
‘A native North Carolinian,’ uncharitably viewed
Posted in On This Day, tagged boston daily advertiser, chicago tribune, nc reconstruction, sidney andrews on October 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1865: Sidney Andrews, Southern correspondent for the Boston Daily Advertiser and the Chicago Tribune during the early days of Reconstruction, sums up his observations of North Carolina: “Spindling of legs, round of shoulders, sunken of chest, lank of body, stooping of posture, narrow of face, retreating of forehead, thin of nose, […]
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