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THE RICHMOND EXAMINER - 805 Issues 1861 thru 1865

The Daily Richmond Examiner. The Richmond Examiner was published from April 1859 until 1867, and it was the principle publication from the capital of the Confederacy. The Richmond Examiner's editor John Moncure Daniel's editorials were often critical of Confederate leadership, especially Jefferson Davis. The paper was described by Appleton's as "the leading paper of the South." This is an offering of approximately 805 individual issues from the period from 1861 until 1865. The issues are 17" x 24" mostly on a single sheet with some printed on double-sheets. Each issue is densely packed text printed in six columns, they have not been bound and are offered as issued. The pages of this publication offer a remarkable day-by-day account of the war from the Southern perspective. A daily column headed War News offers first-hand details of battles, important troop movements, gallantry in the field, lists of casualties. A similar column, Latest News from the North, conveys information printed in northern newspapers. The paper reports heavily on the actions of the Confederate Congress, the Virginia Legislature, and the policies of Jefferson Davis. This is an impeccable source to fully understand the mood and morale of the Confederacy during the War. The following excerpts illustrate the first hand accounts of events as reported by this great Southern newspaper: Monday morning, March 10, 1862. OUR NAVAL VICTORY "…We refer to the accounts in our telegraphic columns of our naval victory in Hampton Roads. Dispatches were received at the War Department yesterday confirming the extent of the Yankee disaster…." Monday morning, April 7, 1862. "…It is hoped that the glorious victory at Corinth, one of the two points at which the force of the enemy was aimed…is the fortunate omen of a still more splendid success nearer home…."Friday morning April, 11, 1862.  THE BATTLE OF SHILOH—THREE THOUSAND PRISONERS TAKEN."…An official dispatch was received yesterday at the Adjutant General's office from General Beauregard, at Corinth. The dispatch gives no particulars of the situation. General Beauregard states that he sent three thousand Yankee prisoners, taken in the late action at Shiloh…."Saturday Morning, May 10, 1862. IMPORTANT NOTICE. "…The citizens of Richmond are earnestly requested to assist in unloading the vessels now loaded with commissary stores, &c., in the dock and to reload them with stone, for the purpose of obstructing the channel of James river against the advance of the Yankee gunboats…." Morning morning, July 6, 1863.   A GREAT BATTLE AT GETTYSBURG THE FIGHT PROBABLY TO BE RENEWED—MOVEMENTS AND OPERATIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA AND MARYLAND—AN ATTACK EXPECTED AT HARRISBURG—LEVIES MADE ON THE CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA—OUR CAVALRY PENETRATE WITHIN A FEW MILES OF WASHINGTON. July 6, 1863. THE YANKEE LOSS. THE YANKEES CONFESS TO HAVE SUFFERED SEVERELY IN THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. THEY SAY THEIR LOSSES WERE "ENORMOUS." TWO OF THEIR GENERALS WERE KILLED, ONE WOUNDED, AND A LARGE NUMBER OF THEIR INFERIOR OFFICERS. Wednesday morning, November 25, 1863. THE DEDICATION" OF THE GETTYSBURG BATTLE FIELD—DETAILS OF THE CEREMONIES—THE CEMETERY—SPEECH AND WIT OF LINCOLN DROPPED ON THE WAYSIDE."…The Yankees had an imposing demonstration over the battle-field of Gettysburg on the 19th instant. The project was to establish a National Cemetery on the battle field for the purpose of interring, in a proper manner, the remains of all the Yankee soldiers who fell in battle and whose remains were left roughly buried on the field. After a great deal of correspondence the arrangements were perfected, and a large number of persons, with Abe Lincoln at their head, met there on the 19th instant. The Yankee papers are filled with details of the ceremony, but we choose to give only that portion of their accounts likely to interest our readers…."Monday morning, September 5, 1864. THE WAR NEWS - THE FALL OF ATLANTA"…After six weeks command of the army of Tennessee, General Hood abandoned Atlanta on last Thursday night, the 1st instant…." There are some imperfections and tears and occasional loss of text.

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