Rare CONFEDERATE Battle of Chancellorsville 1863 Richmond VA Civil War Newspaper
Rare CONFEDERATE Battle of Chancellorsville 1863 Richmond VA Civil War Newspaper. (Note: additional images are located below the description). Offered is an original, historic, & collectible old newspaper: DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, May 4, 1863 Newspaper from the capital of the Confederacy Confederate Victory at Chancellorsville Much on Civil War events in Virginia Not only is this a nice Confederate newspaper, but it is from the capital of the Confederacy. Much war reporting in this issue, as the top of the front page has an historic & significant report headed: "From The Seat Of War In Virginia--Sensation's Stories In This City--Movement Of The Enemy" which covers the battle of Chancellorsville as it was still going 0n. On every hand the questions were asked''Where is General Lee?
The above, coolly translated, seems to mean that the Yankee cavalry... With more, followed by additional reports which hafe subheads including: "News By the Fredericksburg Cars Saturday Evening" "The News of Yesterday" "Later--Rumored Advance of the Enemy Upon Richmond" "Still Later" "The Latest" and "The Battle at Fredericksburg". More war-related items are on the front page including: "From Suffolk" which has a General Order signed in type by: John B.
The Yankee army is said to be laying waste to the whole country around Suffolk... The Yankees have burned every house & destroyed everything within their lines... There is also "Telegraphic News" which has some war items. The back page has a tremendous amount of war content, including an editorial which includes. The Confederacy has never received an insult so mortifying & provoking as that which it suffered yesterday & the day before.The Federal army had reached & taken possession of Spotsylvania Court House... Their cavalry, under General Stoneman...
He is no longer an able, prudent officer making war according to the established rules of the science, but a reckless gambler... Also on the bkpg: "A Scout Into the Shenandoah Country" Dash On the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad by the Confederates--Tearing up the Track, etc. " "The Situation About Suffolk" "The Siege of Vicksburg--Failure of the Transports to Pass the Rebel Batteries... " "Missouri" "Latest News From the North and more. A single sheet issue as was typical in the South in the latter half of the war as most paper mills were in the North and every effort was made to conserve paper use.Folio size and in uncommonly nice, clean condition. Please Note: All of our offerings are 100% authentic! We do not offer reprints or reproductions of any kind. They are guaranteed to be original! For this specific item, A U.
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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. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Other Civil War Original Items".
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- Content: Rare & Early collctible antique original newspaper