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Very rare broadside issue of "The Daily Rebel" from Chattanooga, three days before it would fall to the Yankees...



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September 06, 1863

THE DAILY REBEL, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sept. 6, 1863 

* Very rare Confederate publication
* Battle of Chickamauga close


An extremely rare broadside newspaper, and the first we have added to our inventory in 43 years.
There is no volume or issue number, however this title began August 1, 1862. This issue is dated from the midst of the Chickamauga Campaign in Southeastern Tennessee and Northwestern Georgia. Although it began as a folio size, four page newspaper, at this point it was reduced to a smaller size, single sheet. And this issue being a broadside, it is blank on the reverse. The format makes it appear much like a "camp" newspaper as the exigencies of war in its backyard must certainly have caused a struggle for the printing of a newspaper. Indeed, note that "Army Gazette" is printed just beneath the title, reinforcing its purpose being a newspaper for the soldiers.
The entirely of the text is related to the war as seen in the photos. A very significant date as Chattanooga would fall to the Yankee forces just 3 days later. It is likely this was the last issue printed before the fall, as the American Antiquarian citation for this title notes that the newspaper was "Removed to Marietta, Georgia sometime after Aug. 30, 1863 and before Feb. 23, 1864."
The "Rebel" was one of only a few Tennessee Confederate newspapers that remained in circulation throughout the Civil War. But to do so, and in an attempt to say ahead of the Union Army, the "Rebel was forced to move from town to town and soon earned the nickname the "Rebel on Wheels". Over the course of the war the newspaper was published in Chattanooga; Marietta and Griffin, Georgia; and Selma, Alabama. Federal troops eventually caught up with the "Rebel in Selma and it ultimately ceased publication in late April, 1865.
Complete as a single sheet broadside newspaper measuring 13 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches, several folds, never-trimmed margins, in very nice condition with no breaks or disfigurements.
An issue for the best of collections.

Category: Confederate