Historic Newspapers: Abraham Lincoln & The Civil War

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, July 4, 1863

• 2nd rate

The most desirable print in this issue is the half page: "Raid of Second South Carolina Volunteers (Col. Montgomery) Among the Rice Plantations on

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Feb. 6, 1863  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "The Removal of Gen. Butler" "The Affair Off Charleston Harbor" "The Affair at Fort Donelson" "The Rebels

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Aug. 7, 1863  Front page column heads on the Civil War include: "Johnston's Army at Enterprise" "Retreat * Scattering of Rebel Forces" "The Situation at Vicksburg" "Preparations

NEW YORK TIMES, March 10, 1864  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War: "Important From Richmond" "Highly Interesting Accounts of the Great Raid" "The Manner of Col. Dahlgren's Death and

THE NEW YORK HERALD, Oct. 24, 1863

• Return of General Meade
• Affairs at Vicksburg

• Battle at Bristoe Station

The front page has: "Particulars of the Fight at Colliersville" "Affairs In And About

NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 28, 1863  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War: "Department Of The Gulf" "Encouraging Prospects in Texas" "Gen. Washburn Moving Upon Indianola & Lavacca" "The

NEW YORK TIMES, March 15, 1862  The front page features a very large Civil War map headed: "THE FIELD OF OPERATIONS FROM TENNESSEE TO THE GULF OF MEXICO" with the other heading noting: "Map Showing

NEW YORK WORLD, Feb. 12, 1862  The front page has: "Important Resolutions Of Senator Sumner", which is followed by the full text of his historic series of resolutions outlining what quickly became

NEW YORK TIMES, May 31, 1862

• Siege of Corinth, Mississippi
• Confederate states Civil War map

The front page features a very nice map headed: "RETREAT OF THE REBEL ARMY FROM CORINTH" with the map

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 1862  Page 2 of this issue features a report titled "THE LATE BURNING AT HARPER'S FERRY," detailing the destruction of portions of the town

NEW YORK HERALD, April 25, 1865

• Abraham Lincoln assassination
• Remains arrive in New York City
• Civil War closing events

All columns on all 8 pages are black-bordered in memory of Abraham Lincoln.

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Dec. 4, 1861

• President Abraham Lincoln
• 1st State of the Union Address
• Best publication to be had ?

Most of page 2 is taken up with: "The President's

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Feb. 16, 1865  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "LATE SOUTHERN NEWS" "Rapid Progress Of Sherman" "South Carolina Under His Heel" "He Seizes All The

NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 10, 1861  The top of the front page has nice column heads: "THE NATIONAL CRISIS" "Startling News From Charleston" "The Star of the West Fired into from Morris Island and Fort

THE LEISURE HOUR, London, Sept. 12, 1861 This 12 page issue measures 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches and is "A Family Journal Of Instruction And Recreation" with 2 illustrations.
Nice condition.

Background: The

ADVOCATE FAMILY GUARDIAN, New York, April 15, 1865

• Printed the Day President Lincoln was Assassinated
• Slavery content

The front page has an article discussing slavery and how Christians should have

THE EVENING BULLETIN, Providence, Rhode Island, Oct. 31, 1863  This is a great, smaller-size Civil War newspaper with many war-related reports throughout (see photos). 
Perhaps the most curious is a

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, July 6, 1865

• Soldiers' National Monument
• Gettysburg battlefield cemetery
• Laying the cornerstone celebration

Much coverage on the celebration of the 4th of July, the first since the

PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, New York, May, 1865

• Abraham Lincoln assassination w/ print

Phrenology is a theory that the personality traits of a person can be derived from the shape of their skull.

NEW YORK TIMES, May 2, 1863  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "From Gen. Hooker's Army" "Rumors of a Battle & a Victory" "The Rappahannock Crossed Both Above & Below

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, April 7, 1862

• CSS Manassas ironclad ship

War reports are found on pages 4 & 5 with column heads including: "The War For The Union" 'The Abolition of Slavery in the District" "The

NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 13, 1862  Certainly, the most notable content is found on the back page, headed: "Fred. Douglass On The War" "An Interesting Meeting at the Cooper Institute--A Speech by Fred.

The DAILY PROGRESS, New Bern, North Carolina, Aug. 2, 1861

• Very rare Confederate publication

This is a single sheet newspaper with just a one column masthead, not uncommon from the Confederacy where

NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 31, 1863  Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "IMPORTANT REBEL NEWS" "An Attack Upon the Rebel Rifle Pits on Wednesday" "The Shelling of Charleston"

NEW YORK TIMES, June 25, 1863

• Invasion of Maryland & Pennsylvania
• Confederates advance towards Gettysburg
• General Robert E. Lee's rebel forces
• History about to be made (historic)
• Less than a week away

NEW YORK HERALD, Sept. 24, 1861

• First Battle of Lexington - Hemp Bales
• Battle of Mariatown MO - Missouri

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "THE REBELLION" "Surrender of Col.

NEW YORK WEEKLY DAY-BOOK CAUCASIAN, March 18, 1865

• Final weeks of the Civil War
• Rare pro-white - slavery title

A decidedly racist newspaper which began well before the Civil War & lasted a few years

WESTERN SENTINEL, Winston, North Carolina, May 8, 1863

• Rare Confederate title from the Civil War

This is a very rare title from the Confederacy. According to Brigham only four institutions in the

DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, Jan. 17, 1863

• Capital of the Confederacy

Not only a newspaper from the Confederacy, but from the capital of the Confederate States. The front page has: "Late

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, May 5, 1863

• Second Battle of Fredericksburg w/ map
• Chancellorsville campaign - Virginia

The front page is dominated by a huge Civil War map headed: "THE SITUATION IN VIRGINIA" which

NEW YORK TIMES, June 21, 1863

• Invasion of Maryland & Pennsylvania
• Rebels advance towards Gettysburg
• History about to be made (historic)

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "THE

NEW YORK TIMES, June 18, 1863

• Invasion of Maryland & Pennsylvania
• Rebels marching towards Gettysburg
• History about to be made (historic)

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "THE

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, June 12, 1862

• Battle of Port Republic - Stonewall Jackson victory
• Memphis TN Tennessee - Fort Pillow maps

The front page has not one but two front page maps, headed: "The Action

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York  A nice lot of 9 different issues from 1862, each contains within reports on military events from the Civil War, or reports of developments and improvements of military

NEW YORK TIMES, June 22, 1863

• Invasion of Maryland & Pennsylvania
• Rebels advance towards Gettysburg
• History about to be made (historic)

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are several

NEW YORK HERALD, July 27, 1863

• Siege of Morris Island, South Carolina
• 54th Mass. Infantry Black Regiment

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War: "Important From Charleston" "Siege of Fort

DAILY COLUMBUS ENQUIRER, Georgia, July 31, 1862

• Very rare Confederate publication
• Rebel General Joseph E. Johnston
• Battle of Seven Pines - Fair Oaks

Certainly one of the less common Confederate titles

DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, Dec. 22, 1863

• Charleston, South Carolina siege
• Brigadier General William W. Averell

A nice newspaper from the capital of the Confederate States of America. Among

NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 20, 1862

• Matthew Brady's Manhattan Gallery review
• Gruesome photographs of the Antietam battlefield

Page 5 contains one of the more moving articles on the horrors of war, brought

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, May 31, 1864

• Battle of Totopotomoy Creek

• U.S. Grant vs. R.E. Lee

• Battle of Dallas, Georgia

• William T. Sherman

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Among the front page one column heads on the Civil War are: "THE

HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, New York, November, 1862

• President Abraham Lincoln
• Emancipation Proclamation

Near the back of the issue under "Monthly Record of Current Events" is a report on the

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 1863

• Actor John Wilkes Booth
• Ford's Theatre performance
• Rare appearance w/ advertisement
• President Abraham Lincoln's assassin

A terrific issue

NEW YORK HERALD, April 4, 1865

• Fall of Richmond, Virginia
• Final nail in the coffin ?
• Civil War nearing the end

First column heads on the front page report the fall of Richmond: "GRANT" "Richmond Ours"

NEW YORK HERALD, May 18, 1862

• U.S. naval operations near Fort Pillow
• Mississippi River - Andrew H. Foote

Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Important From South Carolina"

JUNIATA SENTINEL, Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1865

• re. Abraham Lincoln assassination
• Funeral train on tour towards Springfield
• Closing event of the American Civil War

The front page is mostly

NEW YORK HERALD, March 24, 1862

• Uriah P. Levy death (1st report)
• 1st Jewish commodore of U.S. Navy
• American Civil War - Jews

The most notable content within this issue is the very brief, but historic

JAMESTOWN JOURNAL, EXTRA, Jamestown, New York, April 15th---9 A. M.

• Terrific Abraham Lincoln assassination broadside
• First edition just after the announcement of death

Within the world of newspaper

JAMESTOWN JOURNAL, EXTRA, Jamestown, New York, April 7, (1865)

• General Robert E. Lee's surender
• End of the American Civil War
• Very rare Broadside edition

Within the world of newspaper collecting, both

THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, April 30, 1862

• Capture of New Orleans, Louisiana
• Emancipation of slaves in D.C.

Among the articles within are: "A Serious Talk with Serious Men" "Emancipation of Slaves"

DAILY COLUMBUS ENQUIRER, Georgia, Feb. 8, 1862

• Very rare Confederate title
• General Stonewall Jackson - resigns?

Among the various reports inside is an interesting one: "The Richmond Whig is pained to