Reports from the Civil War with a Confederate perspective...
Item # 671823
February 24, 1863
DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, Feb. 24, 1863
* From the capital of the Confederacy
The front page includes: "The Northern Press & the Mediation Question" "The Radicals on the War" which has several subheads including: "Re-Union--The South Independent--the Army Conservative--The Proclamation A Failure" and more. Also on the front page: "Horrible death of Confederate Prisoners" "The Yankee Settlements on the South Carolina Coast--Yankee Cabins Looming Up--Appearance of Hilton Head & Beaufort--Drilling of the Negro Regiments" "Additional From the North" "From Cairo--Arrival of Confederate Prisoners" and much more.
The back page has the always interesting editorial, this one beginning: "It is difficult to decide whether the doubts & delays of the Federal fleet sent to the coast of South Carolina to gobble up the city of Charleston are causes of complacency or regret...".
There is also much reporting from "The Confederate Congress" plus other small items relating to the Civil War from the Confederate perspective.
Complete as a single sheet newspaper with a full banner masthead, a small hole in the blank margin above the masthead affecting nothing, otherwise in nice condition.
background: The February 24, 1863, edition of the Daily Richmond Examiner serves as a poignant artifact of Confederate defiance, capturing a society caught between military stalemate and internal economic strain. The front page reflects a desperate preoccupation with Northern politics, shifting between the hope that European mediation might finally shatter the Union blockade and a scathing critique of the "Radicals" in Washington, whose Emancipation Proclamation is dismissed as a failed attempt to incite servile insurrection. This editorial vitriol is balanced by grim reports of the "horrible death" of Confederate prisoners in Northern camps and the "disgusting" sight of the Union occupation at Hilton Head, where the drilling of Black regiments is framed as a desperate Yankee experiment. On the reverse, the paper’s editorial voice takes a characteristically intellectual and biting tone, weighing whether the Federal navy’s hesitation to strike Charleston is a sign of Northern cowardice or a strategic blessing for the city's defenders. Combined with the mundane yet urgent reports of the Confederate Congress debating the soaring costs of flour and salt, the single sheet paints a vivid picture of Richmond as a city braced for a long, bitter war of attrition, clinging to its sovereignty through a mixture of battlefield pride and reactionary fervor.
* From the capital of the Confederacy
The front page includes: "The Northern Press & the Mediation Question" "The Radicals on the War" which has several subheads including: "Re-Union--The South Independent--the Army Conservative--The Proclamation A Failure" and more. Also on the front page: "Horrible death of Confederate Prisoners" "The Yankee Settlements on the South Carolina Coast--Yankee Cabins Looming Up--Appearance of Hilton Head & Beaufort--Drilling of the Negro Regiments" "Additional From the North" "From Cairo--Arrival of Confederate Prisoners" and much more.
The back page has the always interesting editorial, this one beginning: "It is difficult to decide whether the doubts & delays of the Federal fleet sent to the coast of South Carolina to gobble up the city of Charleston are causes of complacency or regret...".
There is also much reporting from "The Confederate Congress" plus other small items relating to the Civil War from the Confederate perspective.
Complete as a single sheet newspaper with a full banner masthead, a small hole in the blank margin above the masthead affecting nothing, otherwise in nice condition.
background: The February 24, 1863, edition of the Daily Richmond Examiner serves as a poignant artifact of Confederate defiance, capturing a society caught between military stalemate and internal economic strain. The front page reflects a desperate preoccupation with Northern politics, shifting between the hope that European mediation might finally shatter the Union blockade and a scathing critique of the "Radicals" in Washington, whose Emancipation Proclamation is dismissed as a failed attempt to incite servile insurrection. This editorial vitriol is balanced by grim reports of the "horrible death" of Confederate prisoners in Northern camps and the "disgusting" sight of the Union occupation at Hilton Head, where the drilling of Black regiments is framed as a desperate Yankee experiment. On the reverse, the paper’s editorial voice takes a characteristically intellectual and biting tone, weighing whether the Federal navy’s hesitation to strike Charleston is a sign of Northern cowardice or a strategic blessing for the city's defenders. Combined with the mundane yet urgent reports of the Confederate Congress debating the soaring costs of flour and salt, the single sheet paints a vivid picture of Richmond as a city braced for a long, bitter war of attrition, clinging to its sovereignty through a mixture of battlefield pride and reactionary fervor.
Category: Confederate
