1862 NEW ORLEANS NEWSPAPER UNDER UNION OCCUPATION

THE CONFISCATION ACT, AND A PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN AGAINST SOUTHERN TREASON/
THE BATTLE OF BATON ROUGE REPORTED BY GENERAL BUTLER

The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana
Sunday Morning, August 31, 1862

This exceedingly scarce Southern newspaper published only four months after Union forces captured the city of New Orleans, contains the complete printing of the Confiscation Act of Congress, calling for suppression of the Southern insurrection. In his proclamation, Abraham Lincoln he asked persons in the rebellion to cease participating in or abetting it, and “to return to their proper allegiance to the United States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures….” The first part of the actual Act itself stated, in part, “that any person who shall hereafter commit the crime of treason against the United States, and shall be adjudged guilty thereof, shall suffer death, and all his slaves, if any, shall be declared and made free…”

General Benjamin Butler’s report on the Battle of Baton Rouge goes regiment by regiment and points out the individual heroes of the intense fighting–it runs almost 1 1/2 columns!

4 pages, folio, complete and in very fine condition. Civil War newspapers from New Orleans, whether Union or Confederate, are not easy to come by anymore. This is a tremendous opportunity to have a look at life in this fascinating city from the point of view of the people who lived there. All the local news and fascinating advertisements add to the color and bring the past alive! Very reasonably priced, too…and we don’t have another such newspaper!

$475

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VICKSBURG SURRENDERS!//GETTYSBURG–PURSUIT OF LEE’S ARMY

New York Daily Tribune
July 9, 1863

Front page stacked headings announce the surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi to General U.S. (“Unconditional Surrender”) Grant! The entire first column tells the story of the end of a long siege. The Mississippi is now truly open to the Union Army in a tragic blow for the Confederacy.

In other front page news, there is speculation that General Robert E. Lee’s defeated army will attempt to make a strong stand in Maryland and that it cannot reach Virginia. There is a great action-packed report from the “Battle-Field of Gettysburg, July 5, 1863” on “The Fight of the First Corps.” (I couldn’t put this one down!) Other reports read: “Position of the Rebels,” and “Incidents of the Rebel Occupation of Hagerstown.” Finally, headlines report “THE VICTORY AT HELENA, ARK. THE REBELS REPULSED AT ALL POINTS.”

8 pp., with nice wide margins, and in very fine condition. Add this one to your special Civil War collection!

$550

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RARE LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA CONFEDERATE “NECESSITY” ISSUE

THE SIEGE OF ATLANTA–FIGHTING BETWEEN SHERMAN AND HOOD/
“THE (UNION) FAILURE BEFORE PETERSBURG”/
“TREATMENT OF NEGRO SOLDIERS BY YANKEE OFFICERS”/
MOVEMENTS OF COL. MOSBY, THE “GRAY GHOST!”

Lynchburg Virginian
August 17, 1864

Here’s a truly scarce Confederate newspaper printed on light brown “necessity paper” owing to the lack of rag paper available during the Civil War. Many newspapers printed their dailies and weeklys on any type of paper they could find, including cornhusk, wallpaper, and even old bags!

This issue contains a lengthy report titled: “THE SITUATION AT ATLANTA. THE FIGTHT OF THE 29TH. HOOD’S STYLE OF FIGHTING. THE SIEGE A SLOW BUSINESS.” A fascinating short report titled: “MORE OF MOSBY’S WORK,” states that the famed Confederate colonel attacked the Union supply train at Berryville, Virginia, and captured and destroyed 75 loaded wagons and 200 prisoners.

Another article reports that Generals Meade and Burnside are blaming the latest “fiasco” before Petersburg on each other! And, see the scan of a report from a New York paper titled: “TREATMENT OF NEGRO SOLDIERS BY YANKEE OFFICERS.”

Single sheet issue, complete, and in very fine condition. Good Confederate newspapers have truly “dried up” in the market. I’d buy every nice one I could find!

$495

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