Morse, N.S. (fl. 1862-1864) Daily chronicle & sentinel.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.07 Author/Creator: Morse, N.S. (fl. 1862-1864) Place Written: Augusta, Georgia Type: Newspaper Date: 1862, 1863, 1864 Pagination: 8 issues : 4 p. ; 58 x 40.5 cm. Order a Copy
Each issue contains telegraphic reports and Northern news, mostly covering battle reports and war news. Commercial reports indicate stock values in Augusta markets, including financial, cotton, dry goods, grain, groceries, country produce, and sale of enslaved people. Special notices in each issue list religious services, legislative and election news (including intentions of running for elected office), meeting notices, requests for blankets for soldiers, and conscription notices. Auction notices list a variety of things for sale in each issue. Most issues have four pages; one has two extant pages. The 23 (Vol. 25 no. 277; vol. 27 nos. 226, 309, 355 and 361; vol. 28 nos. 19, 25 and 193. 1861/12/1; 1863/9/22, 1863/11/10, 1863/12/6, 1863/12/10; 1864/1/13, 1864/1/16 and 1864/7/30.)
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This paper was published in Augusta, Georgia by N.S. Morse during this time period. The Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State started as a semi-weekly paper in 1785 and became the Augusta Chronicle and Georgia Gazette (then Advertiser) in 1821. In 1835 the paper was named the Augusta Chronicle. In 1837 the paper incorporated the States Rights Sentinel previously edited by Judge Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. The name became the Daily Chronicle and Sentinel in 1840. In 1877 the paper merged with the Constitutionalist and became the Chronicle and Constitutionalist. This paper boasts to having the largest circulation in the city and the state.
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