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- GLC#
- GLC05959.27.06-View header record
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- April 24, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Blum, L.V., fl. 1864-1866
- Title
- People's press. [Vol. 12, no. 51 (April 24, 1863)]
- Place Written
- Salem, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 59.5 cm, Width: 45 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Conscripting Negroes, Yankee Account of Attack on Charleston, Defeat of General Pegram.
An editorial responds to the suspension of habeas corpus and the loss of personal liberty. Minutes from an important Democratic meeting in New York include resolutions for peace, and minutes from the Confederacy congress are printed here. More brief editorials examine the reality of peace. An article reports Mississippi's reactions to the war. Lincoln's proclamation requesting a special day of fast and prayer is printed.
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