The Whig and Observer The Whig and Observer

GLC05987.31

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GLC#
GLC05987.31-View header record
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
after July 22, 1861
Author/Creator
The Whig and Observer
Title
The Whig and Observer
Place Written
Eutaw, Alabama
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 33 cm, Width: 16 cm
Language
English
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Headline states "Glorious News! From Virginia! The Battle of Manassas. Our Arm Victorious." The first excerpt, from the Columbus Republic Extra 21 July 1861, reports that General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's horse was shot from underneath him, and that nine hundred Union troops and sixty Confederate troops were killed. A second dispatch relates that Northern reports claimed the engagement at Manassas Junction was a Union victory. A third dispatch, reported 22 July from Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C., cites a Confederate victory. Possibly printed as an extra version of the Richmond Whig; heading states "Whig and Observer-- Extra."

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