News-Letter Extra

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GLC#
GLC06107.19-View header record
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
2 May 1862
Title
News-Letter Extra
Place Written
Ship Island, Mississippi
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 23.2 cm, Width: 16.9 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Union Soldiers' newspaper printing correspondence between Commodore David G. Farragut and the Mayor of New Orleans (it is unclear which mayor, there were six in 1862). Copied from the "New Orleans Cresent" of 29 April 1862. Also includes a column titled "Eight Great Blunders" copied from the "Religious Herald," a Baptist newspaper out of Richmond, Virginia. Lists eight greatest blunders of the Confederacy, including #2: "In believing that there would be a divided North, and an apathetic Federal Government." List of the deaths of six men in the 13th Connecticut regiment since leaving New York. Says a tent was donated by the people of New Haven, Connecticut and that a library of 270 volumes can found under its canopy.

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