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Yankees advance into North Carolina...
Yankees advance into North Carolina...
Item # 704298
November 10, 1862
DAILY COLUMBUS ENQUIRER, Georgia, Nov. 10, 1862
* " Storehouse of the Confederacy"
* Last major battle of the Civil War fame
Certainly one of the less common Confederate titles from the Civil War. Columbus is in Southwest Georgia on the Alabama border very near Montgomery.
Over half of page 2 is taken up with a lengthy: "Special Message" by the governor of Georgia, concluded in two future issues. The letter begins: "The great struggle for liberty & independence in which we have been engaged during the past year, against a powerful & relentless enemy..." with so much more. Other items inside include: "From Our Western Army" "From the Potomac Army" "Progress & Events of the War" ""Gov. Brown's Message" "Reported Fight in Virginia" "Yankee Advance in North Carolina" and more.
Four pages, even toning, various damp staining, otherwise good.
background: During the American Civil War, Columbus, Georgia, served as the "Storehouse of the Confederacy," evolving into the South's second-most vital industrial hub after Richmond. Leveraging the hydraulic power of the Chattahoochee River, the city operated a massive complex of textile mills, an arsenal, and the Confederate Naval Iron Works, which manufactured steam engines and the ironclad CSS Jackson. Because of its inland location, it remained largely untouched until April 16, 1865, when Union Major General James H. Wilson launched a daring night assault—historically recognized as the last major battle of the war. One week after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Union forces seized the city and systematically torched its factories and naval yards, effectively dismantling the final industrial engine of the Confederate cause and leaving a scarred landscape that would later inspire local veteran John Pemberton to invent the formula for Coca-Cola while seeking a cure for his battle wounds.
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