Prentice, George Dennison (1802-1870) Louisville (Kentucky) daily journal.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.14 Author/Creator: Prentice, George Dennison (1802-1870) Place Written: Louisville, Kentucky Type: Newspaper Date: July - December 1863 Pagination: 33 issues : 4 p. ; 68 x 50.5 cm. Order a Copy
The bulk of the paper is taken up by ads, many for military supplies, railway lines, schools, and others for medical needs and retail supplies. Telegraphic news lists special dispatches of war news. A back page statement of assets lists stocks and liabilities, with licensed agents. Many issues contain a list of local police proceedings. Fictional stories are also included, particularly in the Sunday issue, when there are fewer advertisements. Some issues contain marriage notices and obituaries, and some list river notices. Some Sunday papers have a Masonic Intelligence column. The 12 and 21 September 1863 issues contain fugitive slave ads.
Most issues previously bound. Contains many issues from July-Dec. 1863. Many with Tennessee Historical Society stamp (deaccessioned).
Vol. 33 nos. 248-49, 261-63, 266, 289-90, 292-96, 303-04, 310, 314-15, 320, 327-330, 332, 347, 364, 366-67; Vol. 34 nos. 1, 3, 5, 10, 19
1863/7/27, 1863/7/28, 1863/8/9, 1863/8/10, 1863/8/11, 1863/8/14, 1863/9/6, 1863/9/7, 1863/9/9, 1863/9/10, 1863/9/11, 1863/9/12, 1863/9/13, 1863/9/20, 1863/9/21, 1863/9/23, 1863/10/1, 1863/10/2, 1863/10/7, 1863/10/14, 1863/10/15, 1863/10/16, 1863/10/17, 1863/10/19, 1863/11/3, 1863/11/20, 1863/11/22, 1863/11/23, 1863/11/24, 1863/11/26, 1863/11/28, 1863/12/3, 1863/12/12
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During the 1840s the Louisville Daily Journal was the mouthpiece for the Whig party in the West and the South. Editor and founder George Dennison Prentice was one of the South's most powerful editorialists before the Civil war. He liked to satirize the foibles of the Democratic party. He was also the most influential editor who supported the Union cause. His wife was a secessionist and his sons fought for the Confederates. Prentice opposed the Confederacy as well as abolition, and though he castigated Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, he supported the Union cause. The Louisville Daily Journal, printed and published by Prentice, Henderson, & Osborne, competed with a local Confederate paper, the Courier, printed in Bowling Green. Ironically, in 1868, the two papers joined to form The Louisville Courier-Journal. Prentice went on to edit the New England Weekly Review.
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