Tag Archives: George W. Drisko

Sumter’s 9/11 aftermath: The 12-pounder editorial broadside

“Civil War!!” The double exclamation points hurled an editorial broadside into Down East Maine on Friday, April 19, 1861 as a pro-Union newspaper tore into “the traitorous crew in the cotton States” — and excoriated another regional weekly that lined up solidly with Jefferson Davis. Nathaniel Knight Sawyer (a.k.a. “N.K. Sawyer”) published and edited the […]