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1863/10/31
Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 2, no. 17 (October 31, 1863)]
With caricature of Lincoln on the back page, as Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, seeing a Black man in ragged attire appear as the ghost of Caesar.
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25 June 1862
Shober, William A., fl. 1862
Quincy semi-weekly dispatch [Vol. 2, no. 1 (June 25, 1862)]
Necessity newspaper from Florida, with accounts of J.E.B. Stewart's ride around McClellan's army, Benjamin Butler's atrocities in New Orleans, Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, also discussion of an "Emancipation Measure" on page 4...
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25 May 1865
United States Sanitary Commission (1860-1870)
Soldier's journal. [Vol. 2, No. 14 (May 25, 1865)]
Includes articles relevant to soldiers upon their return home following service in the Civil War. Printed at Augur General Hospital.
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26 July 1864
Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877
Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 26, 1864)]
Reports capture of Atlanta by Sherman, opposition to granting "open & avowed" Rebels the right to vote in upcoming election, death of General Faulkner & Colonel Forrest, defeat of General Forrest, affirmation of Lincoln's handling of the war.
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1865/04/03
Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 3, 1865)]
First issue. Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Includes story about a newly imposed dog tax in Illinois.
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1865/04/10
Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 4 (April 10, 1865)]
Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Printing news of Gen. Lee's surrender. Includes humorous advertisement for the capture of Jefferson Davis.
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1863/05/25
Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 1, no. 30 (May 25, 1863)]
News include report of 4th Mich. Cav. defeating 1st Alabama and capturing their flag. Prints 157 regulations to be followed under martial law. Ink inscription "G.W.C." Later graphite inscription "My uncle Geo. W. Clark."
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1864/01/04
Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 2, no. 62 (January 4, 1864)]
Articles discuss black soldiers, slavery as the cause of the war, Lincoln's amnesty proclamation and the plight of rebel prisoners freezing to death in Northern prison camps.
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9 July 1864
Brownlow's Knoxville whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 27 (July 9, 1864)]
Colored troops in Union and Confederate armies, includes information on the death of General Polk, a campaign ad for Lincoln's election, anti-equality and anti-emancipation articles, John Morgan's raid into Kentucky, Sherman's orders to shoot any and...
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29 July 1864
Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (July 29, 1864)]
Confiscation Acts - written by the United States District Attorney for the District of East Tennessee, Political Ad for Lincoln & Johson, trade regulations, the Rebel Raid in Maryland.
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19 July 1862
Joy, George Mills, fl. 18301-864
New Berne weekly progress. [Vol. 4, no. 50 (July 19, 1862)]
McClellan's Pennisula Campaign, the Battle of Corinth and Benjamin Franklin ("Beast") Butler's order in New Orleans. Includes a false report of Stonewall Jackson's death and wrongly explains how he received his nickname. Remnants of red wax.
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December 24, 1862
New Berne daily progress. [Vol. 5, no. 74 (December 24, 1862)]
Proclamation issued by Edward Stanley, Military Governor of North Carolina, The Battle of Prairie Grove, Foreign Affairs - Marriage of the Prince of Wales April Next.
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18 June 1864
North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 43 (June 18, 1864)]
Union-occupation newspaper. Articles detail the Battle of Kinston, Battle of Columbia, Arkansas, wreck of the U.S. gunboat "Lavender" and invasion of Kentucky. Printed on yellow paper ("brown straw paper").
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22 March 1865
French, George Z., fl. 1865
Herald of the union. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (March 22, 1865)]
Union occupation newspaper with headline "News of the fall of Wilmington." Also: Postponement of the adjournment of the Confederate Congress, discussion of correspondence between General William T. Sherman and Confederate general Wade Hampton...
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1862/01/07
Camp kettle. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (January 7, 1862)]
Regimental newspaper produced by the members of the "Roundhead Regiment of the 100th Pennsylvania Vol."
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14 July 1863
Port Hudson freeman. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 14, 1863)]
Reports on the Surrender of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Printed by Union troops the day Port Hudson was captured. States that Mrs. Vallandinham had gone insane but her "nervous system was severely shocked." Also includes a very moving report from a...
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10 May 1862
Eastman, A. W., fl. 1862
Soldier's News-Letter
Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 1) reporting on capture of Forts Jackson and Philip, which led to the fall of New Orleans. Gives news of events in New Orleans since its...
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17 May 1862
Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 2). Front page and part of 4th page contains a proclamation from 1 May 1862 by Major General Benjamin Butler which says "it has been...
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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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