Rare orig 1864 Augusta GEORGIA Confederate Civil War newspaper w SLAVE SELLER AD
Rare original 1864 Augusta GEORGIA Confederate Civil War newspaper AUGUSTA CONSTITUTIONALIST. As well as news reporting of Union use of NEGR0 SOLDIERS to TERRORIZE captured Confederate women. SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL single sheet CONFEDERATE Civil War NEWSPAPER, the.
(GA) dated January 27, 1864. This original Confederate Civil War newspaper contains news of the Civil War, from the Confederate point of view.
This issue contains SLAVE ADS as well. Originally, Augustans welcomed the idea of the Civil War. The new Confederate Powderworks were the only permanent structures constructed and completed by the Confederacy. Over 2000 Augustans went away to fight in the war, but war did not set into the minds of Augustans until the summer of 1863 when Confederate sympathizers came crowding into Augusta, leading to shortages in housing and provisions. Next came the threatening nearness of General Sherman's advancing army, causing panic in the streets of the once-quiet town.However, the city was never burned to the ground. While the Civil War raged all across the South and Sherman marched through Georgia, Augusta was relatively untouched by the violence.
A major manufacturing center during the war, Augusta provided the Confederacy with cotton, food, munitions and other necessary goods. Augusta became the centerpiece of the Confederate's gunpowder production with the construction of the Confederate Powder Works, the only permanent structure commissioned by the Confederate government. It grew to become 26 buildings along two miles of the canal and produced 2.75 million pounds of gunpowder. The chimneys of the Powder Works are the last surviving structures built by the Confederate States of America.
Although Sherman never arrived in Augusta, the city made preparations for battles that never came. Today, visitors can still see the fortifications to the brick walls at Magnolia Cemetery. Soldiers and seven Confederate generals are buried there, including Porter Alexander, Robert E.
Lee's famous artillery commander. Augusta Presbyterian, whose minister was the father of President Woodrow Wilson, became a hospital. Pews were removed to make way for the wounded from Chickamauga and other inland battles, and the dead were buried in Magnolia Cemetery. This Confederate Civil War newspaper is complete as a single sheet issue.
The single sheet newspaper format was used by many Southern newspapers due to the scarcity of paper in the South during the Civil War. This lack of paper was a result of the South being cut off from their normal paper supplies, previously obtained from the Northern paper mills. Most Confederate Civil War newspapers lack bold single column headlines as were common in Northern newspapers; however, the defiant prose found in Southern newspapers more than makes up for the lack of headlines!Confederate Civil War newspapers are much scarcer, and much more in demand with collectors than Northern newspapers. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it.
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