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- GLC#
- GLC05959.09.081-View header record
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- October 8, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Hanleiter & Adair (publishers), fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- Southern confederacy. [Vol. 2, no. 199 (October 8, 1862)]
- Place Written
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 55.7 cm, Width: 40.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
"Bull Nelson Shot by General Davis -- The Cause of the Tragedy" details the circumstances surrounding the death of General Bull Nelson, reprinted from the Lynchburg Republican. Concludes with a "special dispatch" stating that General Jefferson C. Davis shot and killed Nelson. "Missouri & Western Kentucky" a dispatch on military advances reprinted from the Charleston Mercury. Two other articles report on the public response to the Emancipation Proclamation: "The Chicago Times on Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation," and "The President's Proclamation - Its Reception." Includes other accounts of troop movements and battle reports, advertisements, and local news.
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