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Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864 North Carolina times [Vol. 1, no. 44 (June 22, 1864)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00900.02 Author/Creator: Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864 Place Written: New Bern, North Carolina Type: Newspaper Date: 22 June 1864 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 50 cm, Width: 37.5 cm Order a Copy

Union occupation newspaper. Contains a stories called "The Miser's Bequest" and "A Man Who Works Without Pay." Also comments on Ulysses S. Grant crossing a river to Covington and Harriet Beecher Stowe's "panegyric on President Lincoln." Includes Civil War articles, such as "The Success of Lincoln and Johnson a Death Blow to the Rebellion," referring to the election of 1864. Other articles comment on the movements of the Army of the Potomac, Yankee prisoners, and a mutiny, blockades, and "Southern Harmony." There is also a "Rebel Letter" and an article on the "Petersburg Capture." Prints laws recently passed by the U.S. Congress. Includes many advertisements. Printed on yellow "necessity paper."

Joy, George Mills, fl. 1830-1864
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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