January - December 1863

Blum, L.V., fl. 1864-1866

Header Record

Title: People's press. (Salem, North Carolina).

The "Latest News" column provides war updates and often includes information from Europe. Reports of battles and troops describe events and local people. Several issues contain proclamations from the North Carolina governor Z.B. Vance. Many issues list the wounded and dead. The back page lists school committeemen, census figures, and rates of postage, as well as listings of congressional seats and the North Carolina state census by county. Ads often request workers for hire (both black and white). Some issues have poetry. Issues from January to December 3, 1863. Vol. 12 nos. 37-39,…

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1861/10/15, 1862/01/07

Britton, Edward H., fl. 1861-1862

Header Record

Title: Weekly Catawba journal. (Charlotte, NC)

"Devoted to news, agriculture, literature commerce and general intelligence." 4 p. each. 10/15/1861 and 1/7/1862.

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1861

Stewart, J.J., fl. 1861

Newspaper

Title: Salisbury banner.

The masthead describes this paper as "a weekly Democratic newspaper, devoted to politics, agriculture, commerce, the mechanic arts, education, news, the markets, and miscellaneous reading." This collection contains both weekly and semi-weekly issues. The weekly issues are of a larger size, two pages, while the semi-weekly issues are smaller with four pages. The front page of each weekly issue is generally made up of advertisements for dry goods, newspapers, food, land, and medicines. A column of war news in each issue includes military movements, local battle descriptions, and campaign…

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23 November 1865

Cannon & Holden (printers)

Newspaper

Title: Daily North Carolina standard. [Vol. 1, no. 187 (November 23, 1865)]

Georgia Convention Speech of Joshua Hill, Wade Hampton to the People of South Carolina. Unionist newspaper. Masthead quotes Webster: "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."

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24 January 1863

Hill, William, fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: Newbern progress. [Vol. 5, no. 94 (January 24, 1863)]

Official orders, including about alcohol, black soldiers, and travel. A poem for a new "Yankee Doodle." Articles include The Battle at Springfield, Fight at Blackwater, Official report of Major General Foster. A few reports on foreign news -- Russia and China, Canada, and Italy. "A Newspaper for the People." New Bern was under Federal occupation at the time.

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1864, 1865

Hubbard, F.M., fl. 1864-1865

Header Record

Title: Church intelligencer. (Charlotte, NC)

The Church Intelligencer is "the accredited organ of the Bishops of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and the University of the South." At the time of this run, the paper was edited by F.M. Hubbard and George M. Everhart, both North Carolina clergymen. Everhart acts as Tract and Book Editor for the Protestant Episcopal Church. Each issue contains poetry and communications from other church newspapers, particularly regarding church war efforts, local church members' obituaries, and some serialized stories and articles.…

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1861, 1862

Header Record

Title: Spirit of the age (Raleigh, NC)

Weekly. Vol. 12, no. 47; vol. 13, nos. 50-51; vol. 14 nos. 2, 7, 13 and 17. One very worn issue from 1861. Issues from 1862 use a smaller format of 49 x 33 cm. 7/17/1861; 8/4/1862, 8/11/1862, 9/1/1862, 10/6/1862, 11/17/1862 and 12/15/1862. "A weekly family journal; devoted to temperance, literature, education and news of the day." -Masthead.

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1861, 1862, 1863, 1864

Hale, E.J., 1802-1880

Header Record

Title: Fayetteville (NC) observer

Most issues contain 4 pp. One issue from 1861; 8 from 1862; 12 from 1863. Vol. 43 no. 2341, 2344-45, 2362, 2371-74, 2383, 2385-87, 2389, 2416-17, 2419, 2426-27, 2429-30, 2432-33, 2435, 2437-41, 2445-47, 2449 [...]

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15 May 1861

Newspaper

Title: Hillsborough recorder. [Vol. 42, no. 2092 (May 15, 1861)]

Secretary Seward on the Union, Declaration of Independence of North Carolina.

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July 12, 1863

Newspaper

Title: North Carolina Presbyterian. [Vol. 6, no. 40 (October 3, 1863)]

Articles on the slave code, and Chickamauga. Whole no. 300.

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1861, 1862, 1863, 1864

A.S. Willington & Co., fl. 1861-1864

Header Record

Title: Charleston daily courier. [Vol. 59, no. 18,835 (April 19, 1861)-v. 63, no. 19,915 (November 8, 1864)]

Previously bound. (Daily issue of the Daily Courier; see also Charleston tri-weekly Courier.) Size varies. Five measure 74 x 54.5 cm. while another 12 measure 60 x 42 cm.

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3 October 1863

A.S. Willington & Co., fl. 1861-1864

Newspaper

Title: Charleston tri-weekly courier.

Reported Retreat of Burnside, General Lee's Official Report on the Pennsylvania Campaign (Gettysburg), Yankees Fortifying at Cupepper, C.H.

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1862-1864

Reynolds, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1814-1877

Header Record

Title: Confederate Baptist. (Columbia, SC)

Religious newspaper. Articles include military, letters from regimental chaplains, Yankee atrocities against slaves, biblical view of slavery. Correspondence from various churches, soldiers, missionaries, and chaplains. Religious poetry, children's stories, conversion experiences, revival meetings. Vol. 1 nos. 1-3, 6, 8-13, 16-28, 30-32, 34-37, 39-42, 46-48; vol. 2 nos. 3, 5-8, 11-12. 1862/10/1, 1862/10/8, 1862, 10/15, 1862/11/4, 1862/11/19, 1862/11/26, 1862/12/13, 1862/12/10, 1862/12/17, 1862/12/24; 1863/1/21, 1863/2/19, 1863/2/24, 1863/3/4, 1863/3/11, 1863/3/18, 1863/3/25, 1863/4…

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27 February 1875-21 August 1875

Webster, E.A., 1849-?

Header Record

Title: The free citizen.

E. A. [Eugene Alonzo] Webster is listed as publisher of the "Free Citizen," and A. [Alonzo] Webster is listed as editor. States that the Citizen is published weekly, and is devoted to "Temperance, Literature, and Politics."

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1862 - 1863

Header Record

Title: Camden confederate. [Vol. 2, no. 1 (October 31, 1862)-v. 3, no. 33 (November 16, 1864)]

Biweekly. Vol. 1 nos. 1-3, 5-6, 8-9 (1862); nos. 11, 14, 16, 18, 23, 27-28, 44; vol. 3 no. 4.

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1864

Header Record

Title: Camden weekly confederate. [Vol. 3, no. 8 (May 25, 1864)-v. 3, no. 20 (August 17, 1864)]

Vol. 3, no.8, 10, 12, 14-17, 20, 23.

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1860-1865

Pinckney, Henry Laurens, 1794-1863

Header Record

Title: Charleston mercury.

Published daily except Sunday. Distinct title issued by same publisher of the Tri-weekly Mercury, the tri-weekly edition.

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1862 - 1864

Pinckney, Henry Laurens, 1794-1863

Header Record

Title: Tri-weekly mercury.

Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Triweekly edition of the Charleston Mercury; distinct title issued by same publisher of the Charleston Mercury.

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29 February 1864

Newspaper

Title: The Guardian. [Vol. , no. (February 29, 1864)]

The Enemy are Pressing Upon Dalton in Force, Shelling of Charleston.

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14 January 1862

Newspaper

Title: Tri-weekly South Carolinian. [Vol. 25, no. 6 (January 14, 1862)]

French Vessel Fired Into by Federals, From the Upper Potomac, Surrender of Vera Cruz.

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1862 - 1864

Header Record

Title: New South.

Weekly. 11/1/1862; 3/14/1863, 2/28/1863, 4/4/1863, 4/18/1863; and 4/2/1864.

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2 July 1862

Sperry, J.A., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Daily Register. [July 2, 1862]

Handwritten note at top: Why McClellan failed to reach Richmond; Vicksburg Intelligence; Killed & Wounded at Chickahominy. Ads for fugitive soldiers. Printed on heavy brown necessity paper with faded ink.

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1861/09/12, 1861/09/14

M'Clanahon & Dill

Header Record

Title: Memphis tri-weekly appeal.

Vol. 17 nos. 111-112.

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1863-1865

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Header Record

Title: Brownlow's Knoxville whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (November 11, 1863)- v. 2, no. 15 (May 24, 1865)]

Weekly Unionist newspaper. 2 copies of vol. 1, no.1, 11/11/1863. Parson Brownlow added the subtitle (starting a new series) after his triumphant return to Tennessee; he had been expelled the previous year from the Confederacy. Vol. 1 nos. 1-12, 14-26, 31-52; vol 2 nos. 1-9, 11-15. The issue dated 11/25/1864 lists election results by state in tabular form.

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1861-1864

Cushing, Edward H., 1829-1879

Header Record

Title: The Tri-weekly telegraph.

Issues contain state legislative minutes and lists of representatives and committees with election returns, Texas news items, occasional death and marriage notices, and an occasional poem. Commercial reports may include prices in produce, cotton, and merchandise. Occasional advertisements. Many issues previously bound. Most issues have two pages; some have four. Fugitive slave ads. Vol. 28, no. 156 (March 16, 1863) on necessity paper Vol. 29, no. 83 (September 30, 1863) on necessity paper Vol. 29, no. 84 (October 2, 1863) on necessity paper Vol. 29, no. 97 (November 3, 1863)…

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