The Vicksburg Daily Citizen, 1863-07-02
Scope and Contents note
The Wars memorabilia Collection focuses on United States wars from The American Revolution through World War II. The collection includes WWII "propaganda" 16 mm newsreels films for selling U.S. War Bonds; 15 WWII Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; Don C. Eckels' World War I memoribilia pertaining to American Expeditionary Forces servicemen in France from 1918-1919; Durkee/Blackdon family letters covering military and personal family matters from 1771-1802 and 1862-1893 which were donated by Miss Florence Durkee of Brea, California in 1973.
Dates
- 1863-07-02
Extent
From the Collection: 12 boxes (6 boxes of manuscripts, letters and ephemera, 16 reel to reel films, runs of Stars and Stripes and Yank periodicals, assorted scrapbooks, oversize folders of posters, prints and sheet music in 27 linear feet.)
From the Collection: 7 manuscript box (Scrapbooks with newspaper clippings)
From the Collection: 3 folders (Posters, maps, oversize memorabilia)
Language of Materials
English
General
Reprint of well-known Civil War memorabilia item of a newspaper printed on wallpaper.
The Daily Citizen was edited and published in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by J.M. Swords. Like several other Southern newspapers of the Civil War period, its stock of newsprint paper became exhausted and the publisher resorted to the use of wallpaper. On this substitute he printed the following known issues: June 16, 18, 20, 27, 30, and July 2, 1863. Each was a single sheet, four columns wide, printed on the back of the wallpaper.
On July 4, 1863, Vicksburg surrendered, the publisher fled, and the Union forces found the type of the Citizen still standing. They replaced two-thirds of the last column with other matter already in type, added the note quoted below, and started to print a new edition. Evidently, after a few copies had been run off (how many is unknown), it was noticed that the masthead title was misspelled as "CTIIZEN." The error was corrected, although the other typographical errors were allowed to stand, and the rest of the edition printed.
Source: https://guides.loc.gov/noteworthy-newspaper-issues/daily-citizen
Repository Details
Part of the CSUF University Archives & Special Collections Repository
University Archives & Special Collections
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