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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.29 Author/Creator: Stewart, J.J. Place Written: Salisbury, North Carolina Type: Newspaper Date: 1861 Pagination: 7 issues ; 63.4 x 46.7 cm. Order a Copy
The masthead describes this paper as "a weekly Democratic newspaper, devoted to politics, agriculture, commerce, the mechanic arts, education, news, the markets, and miscellaneous reading."
This collection contains both weekly and semi-weekly issues. The weekly issues are of a larger size, two pages, while the semi-weekly issues are smaller with four pages. The front page of each weekly issue is generally made up of advertisements for dry goods, newspapers, food, land, and medicines. A column of war news in each issue includes military movements, local battle descriptions, and campaign plans. Several issues contain poetry.
Two sizes: 46.5 x 31.5 and 63.4 x 46.7 cm. Issues from May, Sept. and Oct. 1861. Vol. 8 nos. 19-21, 48, 53-54.
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This collection is a weekly paper, with J.J. Stewart and W.L. Saunders as editors and proprietors. The Salisbury Banner appeared as a semi-weekly from 1854 to 1861, a weekly from 1852 to 1862, a tri-weekly from 1865 to 1867, and was known as the Daily Union Banner from 1865 to 1866 and the Salisbury Daily Banner from 14 November 1865 to 30 November 1865.
Salisbury is the county seat of Rowan County, North Carolina. Named for Salisbury, England, on the banks of the Avon River, the North Carolina town was settled prior to the Revolutionary War.
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