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A Memphis Confederate newspaper printed in Atlanta...
A Memphis Confederate newspaper printed in Atlanta...
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June 16, 1863
THE MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16, 1863
* Very rare Confederate title
* Publisher on the run
If the title and city of publication seem to be in conflict, they are not. This newspaper had a fascinating history during the Civil War. See the information at the bottom of this listing.
The front page has: "The Great Peace Meeting In New York--Resolutions & Speeches" "From Fredericksburg" "Straight Abolitionist--Conway Again" "Flying Dutchmen" "Not Despondent Yet" "Norther Papers" "Evils of Blockade Running" "The Confederate Currency" "A Novel Attempt to Run the Blockade" and more.
The back page includes: "Gen. Lee's Movements--Federal Speculations" "Vicksburg" "The Late Cavalry Battle In Virginia--The Federals Posted as to Stuarts Proposed Movements" "People Of The North Rising" "The Yankee Loss at Port Hudson--The Negro Regiment" "What Grant is Doing" "Letter From Richmond" and even more.
Complete as a single sheet issue of folio size. There is a small hole near the middle which affects a few words; irregular at the right margin with several small tears & chipping & archival mends causing some ftpg. loss to ads only, and some loss to back pg. items not mentioned.
Memphis was a Confederate stronghold up through the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862, at which time the Yankees moved in and it became a Yankee city. The "Memphis Daily Appeal", dedicated to the Southern cause rallying both civilians & soldiers, it was the most important newspaper of the region, soon famously known as the "Moving Appeal."
Complete as a single sheet newspaper, a bit ragged at the left & right margins but causing no loss of words or readability, a small hole near the very center, otherwise good.
On June 6, 1862, the presses and plates were loaded into a boxcar and moved to Grenada, Mississippi, where it stayed for a few months, until approaching Federal troops threatened again, forcing a move in November 1862 to Jackson, Mississippi, where it published until May 1863, when Federal troops again arrived. By this time, the Appeal had gained notoriety among Union forces as a rebel sympathizer while it remained on the run. The next stop was Meridian, Mississippi, from where, one issue and two days later, the wandering journalists moved on to Mobile, Alabama, then to Montgomery, and ultimately to Atlanta, the economic heart of the Confederacy. Publication from Atlanta began in June 1863 and continued through July 1864, when it returned to Montgomery, where it published from September 1864 to April 1865. Its final move was to Columbus, Georgia, where Federal forces finally caught up with it. It resumed publication following the war in Memphis on November 5, 1865. During just a four year period this newspaper published in nine different cities. (credit: Tennessee State Library & Archives)
Category: Confederate
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