Very Rare SALISBURY NC North Carolina CONFEDERATE Civil War 1864 Old Newspaper. (Note: additional images are located below the description). Shown is an original & historic old newspaper, offered to enhance your collectible interest: DAILY CAROLINA WATCHMAN, Salisbury, North Carolina, Nov.
A quite rare title, particularly this late in the Civil War for North Carolina as this is still a Confederate newspaper evidenced by several articles, including a back page item: "Ludicrous Mistake" which notes. It appears that a most ludicrous mistake occurred among the Yankees during Grant's late'reconnaissance'. Unacquainted with localicies, become separated from the rest of the troops. They wandered around for sometime in the hopes of meeting with their comrades. They came out upon a railroad.
Set to work upon it in a trice & enthusiastically tore up about a mile and a half of it. The Yankees had torn up a mile and a half of Grant's new railroad just laid down from the vicinity of Petersburg to City Point.
The front page has a number of reports concerning the Civil War with datelines from Richmond, Mobile, Raleigh and Petersburg. Also has a listing of the: Confederate State Government, located at Richmond, Va. Plus the other officers (see photos). Complete as a single sheet newspaper various water stains & foxing but causing no loss of readability, otherwise in nice condition.
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Please check with your country's. We have been dealers in rare newspapers for over 42 years, serve as consultants to multiple museums, and are members of the American Antiquarian Society. Timothy Hughes Rare Newspapers P. Desiring to conduct ourselves honorably in all things. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. The item "Very Rare SALISBURY NC North Carolina CONFEDERATE Civil War 1864 Old Newspaper" is in sale since Tuesday, April 3, 2018. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Other Civil War Original Items". The seller is "timhu" and is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped worldwide.