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- GLC#
- GLC05959.15.05-View header record
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- December 24, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Sandoz, Joel H., fl. 1840-1864
- Title
- Opelousas courier. [Vol. 12, no. 30 (December 24, 1864)]
- Place Written
- Opelousas, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 45.4 cm, Width: 30.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
The front page is in French and the back page is in English. Rosser Captured New Creek & Piedmont. This Christmas issue contains brief holiday notices, including a plea to assist needy soldiers' families and advertising an attraction for soldiers. An account of military actions taken by Ulysses S. Grant as general of the Union. A lengthy obituary memorializes Lieutenant Edward O'Reilly. A notice for Confederate tax debtors is printed. Opelousas was under Federal occupation at the time.
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