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- GLC#
- GLC05959.23-View header record
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- 1861-1864
- Author/Creator
- Holden, William Woods, 1818-1892
- Title
- Semi-weekly standard.
- Place Written
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 14 issues : 4 p. : Height: 63.5 cm, Width: 46.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
This selection focuses on congressional reports and state records and minutes, with repetitive lists of state governors, and political parties. Articles, editorials, and letters focus on the impending issue of secession and legislative action. Advertisements include a large number of business ads, including professional services and retail goods, and as secession and impending war progress, focus turns to war.
Other versions include the North Carolina Standard, North Carolina Standard Weekly, Weekly North Carolina Standard, Weekly Standard, Semi-Weekly North Carolina Standard, Weekly, Standard, Tri-weekly Standard, Daily North Carolina Standard, and Daily Standard. (1861/3/2, 1861/3/16, 1861/3/20, 1861/4/3, 1861/5/1, 1861/5/4, 1861/10/2, 1861/10/5, 1861/10/26; 1862/12/19, 1862/12/23; 1863/2/17; 1864/4/20, 1862/8/19.) 1862/10/26 contains a fugitive slave ad on the back page. 1863/2/17 has one on the front page.
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