A Confederate newspaper published on the run...

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February 16, 1864

THE MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, Atlanta, Georgia, Feb. 16, 1864 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.
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 Appeal", very much dedicated to the Southern cause rallying both civilians & soldiers, was the most important newspaper of the region & was soon famously known as the "Moving Appeal."
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)
Among the front page items are: "Mississippi Desolated" "From Mississippi" "To the Public" "The Grand Fraud of Lincolnism" "Nashville Intelligence" 'The Constitution of Arkansas" "Confiscation in the Federal Congress" "From Florida" "Siege of Charleston" "Latest From Florida--The Enemy Repulsed--Confederates Captured" "Cavalry & Partisan Rangers" "Confederate Congress" "The War News" and other smaller items.
The back page has much good war-related news as well with an interesting editorial: "The Enemy's Plans Developing" which focuses on thoughts that the Yankees will endeavor to destroy the grain-growing areas of the South. Also on the back page: "The Tennessee Heavy Artillery" "Re-Enlisted for the War" "Fenner's Battery" "Thirty-Seventh Alabama" "Mississippi" and other smaller items.
Complete as a folio size, single sheet newspaper in very nice, clean condition.

Category: The Civil War