Confederate newspaper collection [decimalized]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: Order a Copy
Confederate newspapers collection. First-hand accounts of the war by Confederate journalists in the field and soldiers at the front, soldiers' and officers' letters written home, general orders and military directives issued by the commanders on the battlefield. Many printed on different types of necessity paper, including one on "wallpaper." Most have excellent provenance, e.g., the Texas papers addressed to Bishop Gregg in Houston; others are deaccessioned from institutional collections (e.g., Tennessee Historical Society). From Fort Sumter to Lee's Surrender at Appomattox, covering both Western and Eastern theater of the war. Decimalized by state: Georgia: .01-.11, Kentucky: .12-.14, Louisiana: .15-.18, Mississippi: .19-.21; North Carolina: .22-.34; South Carolina: .35-.45; Tennessee: .46-.48; Tennessee: .49-.53; Virginia: .54-.75. One newspaper is well after the Civil War: GLC 5959.38, The Free Citizen, South Carolina's first African-American newspaper (1875). Condition of many items is fragile. Many titles are also available on microfilm (e.g., Richmond Enquirer; Charleston Mercury). [Decimalized 05959.01-05959.81. 05959.52 is VOID.]
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