[C19fan]

Some things I noticed:

1: Union evacuating Norfolk Naval Base and burning it. Keep an eye on the Merrimac.
2: Thomas Francis Meagher forming a unit of Irish Volunteers.
3: NY Times really ripping the British. The landed Tory elite were very much Pro-Confederacy as they never liked America and their sympathies were with their landed brethren in the South.
4: Why does the NY Times call the Confederacy the Negro Confederacy?

[BroJoeK]

"4: Why does the NY Times call the Confederacy the Negro Confederacy?"

And related questions:

1. Why was Thomas Jefferson called the Negro President?

2. Why does the Southern press refer to Black Republicans?

3. Why is the Union president called, among similar names, "the Big Ape"?

4. Does anybody imagine that colorful political hyperbole is something of only recent invention?