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6 July 1863
The black hawk chronicle. [Vol. 1, no. 5 (July 6, 1863)]
Siege of Vicksburg. A Southerner surrenders for whiskey. Many articles illustrate Army - Navy Rivalry. Prints poem Hiawatha.
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1863
C.R. Galpin & Co., 2d. Mich. V. (publishers)
Union vidette. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (1863)]
First edition, volume 1, no. 1. "Published every now & then." Counterpart to Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's "Vidette." Poem to Kearny (dead). Article titled "Is the President's Proclamation of Freedom (Emancipation of Slaves) Constitutional or...
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29 November 1861
The Union picket guard. [Vol. 1, no. 8 (November 29, 1861)]
"Fridday" misspelled in masthead. With ink marks (possibly iron gall) . Article about the 2nd Illinois Cavalry has been circled. Includes an article about a flag of truce passing through Paducah, at which point a Confederate flag waved outside a...
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13 April 1865
Bondurant & Elliot
The Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (April 13, 1865)]
Issue is dedicated to General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Prints the correspondence between General Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant leading up to the surrender. Prints general orders. Includes articles on the fall of the Confederate...
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1865/04/17
Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 12 (April 17, 1865)]
Announcement of the assassination of President Lincoln on page four. Also includes a front page article entitled "feeling of the people of the north toward the south." The Whig was the first newspaper in the South to print the news of the...
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1865/04/21
Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 16 (April 21, 1865)]
Inlcudes news on the raising of the flag at Fort Sumter and surrender of Gen. Johnston in North Carolina. Also contains news concerning the arrest of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Prints a letter from Edwin Booth concerning the...
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5 September 1863
Sears, Joseph H., fl. 1850-1862
New south. [Vol.1, no. 52 (September 5, 1863)]
Union occupation newspaper. Contains a sarcastic poem titled "Farewell to the South," disparaging views of Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan, a list of "Loyal Generals" who support abolition and "unconditionally sustain the President and his...
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24 October 1863
The new south. [Vol. 2, no. 7 (October 24, 1863)]
Union occupation newspaper. Includes articles concerning Naval prizes, Burnside's march from Crab Orchard to Knoxville, news from Morris Island, Vallandingham, the Sanitary Commission, capture of the tugboat "Herald,"Ohio soldiers, and voting. Also...
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Stickney, Latta & Reed, 1863
Free South. [Vol. 1, no. 35 (September 5, 1863)]
Union occupation newspaper, with content relating to emancipation and African American troops. The arrest and court martial of a soldier who referred to the 3rd USCT as "Nigger Regiment." Using the programs in Delaware and Missouri as examples of...
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26 March 1864
Free South. [Vol. 2, no. 12 (March 26, 1864)]
Union occupation newspaper. Lincoln proclamation appointing Grant to command the United States Army, Lincoln's call for 200,000 men, secret prisoner exchange meeting between McClellan and Howell Cobb, occupation of Sea Islands, freeing of slaves &...
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17 March 1864
S.W. Mason & Co.
Palmetto herald. [Vol. 1, no. 3 (March 17, 1864)]
Steamer edition of this Union occupation newspaper. The Negro freed slave view of the war. Letter from the correspondent embedded in the 33rd Delaware regiment, escape & capture of three prisoners, night attack on Seabrook, Port Royal ship news.
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3 May 1865
Sixth corps. [Vol. 1, no. 6 (May 3, 1865)]
News of Lincoln's assassination and the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth. Also includes an article on opening trade with the south once all rebels have been overthrown, and the text of the "President's favorite poem."
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circa May 1864
unknown
Part of an unknown newspaper. The collateral files suggests that it might be from Alexandria, Louisiana. If that is true, then this section is probably from the "Louisiana Democrat." Date of creation estimated from the dates of the printed letters on...
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27 May 1861
Herald Extra [May 27, 1861]
Newspaper clipping of General Butler's attack on Sewall's Point.
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27 April 1778
Edes, Benjamin, 1732-1803
Boston gazette and country journal. [No. 1235 (April 27, 1778)]
Discusses military matters pertaining to the Revolutionary War. Reports on governmental matters related to the Continental Congress, including taxation, acts of Congress, and business proceedings of the East India Company. Includes a lengthy...
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1847/06/08-1847/09/03
State Register Vol. 1, No. 1-36 [Lincoln] [damaged issue no. 2]
With content related to Abraham Lincoln's legislative career. Lacking the first leaf of No. 2.
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6 December 1780
Dunlap, John, 1747-1812
The Pennsylvania packet, or, the general advertiser [No. 686 (December 6, 1780)]
Prints the Continental Congress's proclamation of a day of "public Thanksgiving and prayer." There is also an article on national fiscal matters and "Doctor Shippen's Vindication" for charges of neglect to soldiers during the American Revolution....
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1855/09/26
The Kansas freeman. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (September 26, 1855)]
Early issue of anti-slavery newspaper. Concerns new government and constitution of Kansas. Also mentions in editorial (p. 2) the editor's problems in getting a press set up.
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1787/09/19
Constitutional Convention, 1787
Pennsylvania packet and daily advertiser. [No. 2690 (September 19, 1787)]
First printing of the Constitution in a newspaper. This version, printed by Dunlap and Claypoole, the same who had printed the draft versions of the Constitution meant for private use by delegates at the Constitutional Convention.
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28 February 1863
Curran, William, fl. 1863
The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 11, no. 133 (February 28, 1863)]
Military orders of encampments and private property. Conscription orders. Fugitive and slave sales ads. Light gray and white floral pattern.
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1864/01/16
Crutch. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (January 16 1864)]
Soldiers' weekly paper from U.S. General Hospital, Annapolis; Div. no. 1. Presented to Miss Susan Dennis, Portland, Maine.
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3 August 1861
Haldeman, Walter N., 1821-1902
Louisville courier--extra. [no volume or number information (August 3, 1861)]
Pro-Confederate newspaper. Front page is dominated by a speech on executive usurpation by Kentucky Senator John C. Breckinridge on 16 July 1861. List of taxes passed by the House of Representatives. A scathing column critical of the "Abolitionism and...
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[1847]/03/31
Rochester Daily Advertiser Extra. [Mexican War]
Taylor's "Repulse of Santa Anna's Army!!"
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20 October 1864
Button, Charles W., fl. 1858-1877
Lynchburg Virginian. [October 20, 1864]
Includes an article discussing the recruitment of African Americans for military service. States "We prefer to organize colored regiments now, while we have an abundance of the white element in the field to absorb the other, and to guard effectually...
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1851-1855
Newspaper
[Deseret news; Vols. 2, 3, 4].
Official publishing organ of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), and the only newspaper in the Utah Territory until after the Civil War. Contents include official announcements and information on the Church. Published in Great...
GLC05233
24 March 1855-February 1860
[Deseret News; Vols. 5-9].
Official publishing organ of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The 5 May 1858 through 1 September 1858 issues of volume 8 were printed in Fillmore City, Utah. Volume 8 lacks nos. 4 and 27.
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11 January 1838
Haughton, Richard, 1799-1841
Atlas. [Vol. 6, no. 164 (January 11, 1838)]
Most prominent on this page is a report on the debate of "Calhoun's resolutions" concerning the parameters of the "gag rule," which was renewed by the senate annually between 1836 and 1844. The debate touches on states' rights, free speech, and...
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1800/01/01
Parker, Samuel Stillman, 1776-1811
The Constitutional Telegraphe. [Vol.1, no. 27 (January 1, 1800)]
This document is a copy of the Constitutional Telegraphe published in 1800. It reports on the "Triumph of Democracy," the funeral of Washington (with diagram of procession) and reports a speech of Gov. McKean. The top of the newpaper is decorated...
GLC05667.03
1736/01/22-29
Boston weekly news-letter. [No. 1667 (January 22- January 29, 1736)]
Complete in 2 pages? Printed by F. Draper. Includes international news, Tunis, war on the Continent and Boston news.
GLC05667.02
1732/09/08
Zenger, John P., 1697-1746
New-York weekly journal. [Vol. 933, no. 96 (September 8, 1735)]
Published one month after Zenger's acquittal. Complains that the magistrate has no right over nor should intrude in the private lives of citizens. Argues that by liberty and natural right, men are entitled to govern over their own private affairs...
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1790/06/19
Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 2, no.20 (June 19, 1790)]
Whole no. 124. re: Notice of Rhode Island's ratification of the Constitution; Washington's letter to Hebrew Congregation of Savannah; etc.
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1735/06/30
New-York weekly journal. [No. 86 (June 30, 1735)]
Printed while Zenger was in prison
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1 April 1762
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1736 (April 1, 1762)]
Re: British and French hostilities in the Caribbean; Indian peace treaty in Virginia, etc.
GLC07266
1790/01/02
Fenno, John, 1751-1798
Gazette of the United States. [No. 76 (January 2, 1790)]
re: urging ratification of Bill of Rights in Virginia; "an act providing for the expenses which may attend negotiations with Indian tribes ..." etc.
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1790/02/27
Gazette of the United States. [No. 92 (February 27, 1790)]
Re: House of Representatives discussion on Hamilton's report as Secretary of Treasury.
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1735/05/19
New-York weekly journal. [Vol. 933, no. 80 (May 19, 1735)]
Argues for the education of "women of quality." States several reasons why education should be more available to women: a woman's domestic lifestyle is better suited learning than a man's lifestyle and women's natural gift of speech can be put to...
GLC07336
1859/12/09
Liberator. [Vol. 29 no. 49 (December 9, 1859)]
Whole no. 1510. It includes eyewitness accounts, the "Arrival of Mrs. Brown", "The Harper's Ferry Rising", the execution of Brown.
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1859/12/16
Liberator. [Vol. 29, no. 50 (December 16, 1859)]
Whole no. 1511. It includes "Brown's letter to his wife.", the burial of John Brown; South Carolina's secession movement and the dissolution of the Union.
GLC07287
1860/02/17
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Frederick Douglass's paper. [Vol. 13, no. 9 (February 17, 1860)]
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1787/09/29
The Providence gazette and country journal. [Vol. 24, no.1239 (September 29, 1787)]
printing Constitution
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26 March 1803
New York herald. [No. 129 (March 26, 1803)]
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3 January 1861
Nixon, J.O., fl. 1861
New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 260 (January 3, 1861)]
Published at 70 Camp Street. In response to an article in the "Chicago Tribune," front page has an article mockingly titled "New Orleans Ruined!-Cotton Doomed!" that says the city's markets will survive if New Yorkers eliminate tolls on Erie Canal...
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4 January 1861
New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 261 (January 4, 1861)]
Published at 70 Camp Street. Only has first 2 pages of a usual full 8 page issue. Front page article titled "No Compromise," rejects the compromise efforts of Henry Winter Davis in Washington. Article titled "The State Conventions," gives updates on...
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25 February 1861
New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 305 (February 25, 1861)]
Published at 70 Camp Street. Article on University of Louisiana. Description of the New Orleans celebration of George Washington's birthday takes up three quarters of the front page. Describes an "Imposing Military Display." Short item on arrival...
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4 October 1862
Ayres, E.W. and Wade, W.H., fl. 1862-1864
Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 1, no. 4 (October 4, 1862)]
Sketch of Major General Edwin Kirby Smith.
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11 October 1862
Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 1, no. 5 (October 11, 1862)]
Sketch of General Sterling Price of Missouri.
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8 November 1862
Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (November 8, 1862)]
Sketch of the City of Vicksburg, Mississippi - History & Siege of Vicksburg from May 18 to July 25. Also includes a cartoon of Lincoln as a masked Satan; the caption reads, "King Abraham before and after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation."
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15 November 1862
Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 1, no. 10 (November 15, 1862)]
Sketch of Lt. General Leonidas Polk.
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22 November 1862
Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 1, no. 11 (November 22, 1862)]
Sketch of Major General A.P. Hill.
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29 November 1862
Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 1, no. 12 (November 29, 1862)]
Sketch of General William Cabell.
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