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Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, publishers Daily federal union. [Vol. 4, no. 19 (November 29, 1861)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.01.01 Author/Creator: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, publishers Place Written: Milledgeville, Georgia Type: Newspaper Date: 29 November 1861 Pagination: 4 p. ; 34.5 x 49 cm. Order a Copy

Subjects include Lord Lyons and the capture of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell, admission of Missouri to the Confederacy, 11 November 1861 proclamation from the governor to the volunteer militia companies of the state. This issue includes minutes of the gubernatorial and senatorial reports, and lists of elected senators, representatives, and war tax collectors. Inclues small sections of Southern news, including the secession of Missouri and an update of war events in Pensacola. Selected correspondence between Governor Joseph E. Brown and General William H.T. Walker highlights the communication between political and military. Edges are frayed.

Millidgeville, Georgia, named for governor George Millidge, was established as the state capital on 12 December 1804. From this location, the state of Georgia voted to secede from the Union on 19 January 1861. Atlanta became the state capital on 20 April 1868 due to its location as a transportation hub during Reconstruction. The Federal Union was established in 1830 with John Polhill as its first editor. It was printed by Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, who, as the official state printers, also published state laws, acts, bills, resolutions, and convention proceedings in book form, as well as minutes and senate journals.

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