The Statesman editor reports that rumor has it that General [Henry] Halleck has been appointed to replace General [Irvin] McDowell at the head of the U.S. Army Department of the Pacific because Halleck was criticized for putting former Confederates…
This report with editorial comment in the Walla Walla Statesman suggests that these newspapers and others like it - Democratic newspapers opposed to the Lincoln administration - had been suppressed by military order of U.S. Army General Irvin…
The Statesman publishes U.S. Army Major General [Irvin] McDowell's declaration of the end to martial law, military arrest, and the reinstitution of the rights of habeas corpus in the West, including Washington Territory, Idaho Territory and the state…
After the conclusion of the Civil War, as the United States began to feel its way through the process of reconstruction, Democrats commented with cynicism on the role that newly-freed slaves would play in the new nation. Here, we see the report that…
The Washington Standard is a Republican or Unionist newspaper; the Walla Walla Statesman is a Democratic newspaper. The Statesman editor here quotes from and comments on a two-column editorial in the Statesman, indicating its rejection of black…
The reprinted editorial from the Sacramento Union, in the Walla Walla Statesman, reports the confusion that reigns in Virginia, as that divided state seeks to elect a new representative government after the close of the war. The editorial speculates…
The Walla Walla Statesman editor names the most outspoken pro-war radical abolitionists, and is surprised that they now advocate leniency for former Confederates.
After the war, Americans began to create their memories of it. This reprinted article from New York entertained Walla Walla readers with accounts of Yankee manufacturers fabricating relics of the war, in the same way that "relics" of antiquity are…
This editorial comment in the Walla Walla Statesman demonstrates the effect of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on American politics, wrapping his supporters in a cloak of integrity and condemning his opponents to accusations of murder. After his…
The New York Post editorial is somewhat tongue-in-cheek about the scarcity of gold and silver specie in every other state than California. However, the significant point is that the Walla Walla Statesman editor comments that the arguments advanced…