FLAKE'S WEEKLY BULLETIN, Galveston, Texas, July 10, 1864  

* Very rare Southwestern Confederate publication

Although we have had several of this title in the past, we believe this is the first we have offered from during the Civil War.
Among the articles: "Morgan's Raid in Kentucky" "Shenandoah Valley" "From Southern Papers" "The Blockade Runner Isabel Again" "Hunter's Army In the Field" "The Campaign in Virginia" "What Grant is Doing--The Campaign Reviews" and more.
Complete as a single sheet issue, some creases, a few discrete archival mends, some light stains.

Background: The absolute scarcity of a July 1864 Flake's Weekly Bulletin cannot be overstated; it exists as a miraculous survivor of a publishing landscape that had effectively collapsed. In the Civil War South, authentic Confederate-era newspapers are exceptionally rare compared to Northern presses, but Trans-Mississippi prints (from Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas) are the rarest of all due to their profound geographic isolation. By mid-1864, the Union naval blockade had strangled Galveston’s supply lines, triggering an existential paper famine that forced Southern printers to dramatically reduce their physical page size—often to a "single sheet issue"—or resort to printing on wrapping paper and the backs of ledger sheets. Furthermore, Ferdinand Flake's unique status as a Unionist editor operating dangerously inside Confederate territory meant his offices were constantly targets for destruction and his supplies routinely confiscated. Because the vast majority of Texas newspapers from this volatile summer were read to pieces, used as fire-starter, or rotted away in the humid Gulf coast climate, finding a complete, intact issue from the literal climax of the war is an apex acquisition for any collector—a true paper ghost that managed to survive over 160 years.