(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE) An issue of The Two Republics a Con

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) An issue of The Two Republics, a Confederate expatriate newspaper in Mexico. 4 pages, 24 x 16 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet; folds, moderate wear and soiling to front panel. Mexico City, 12 December 1868

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The Two Republics was an English-language newspaper founded in Mexico City in 1867, by and for the small community of Confederate refugees who had fled south after the Civil War. The editor George C. Clarke was an expatriate Confederate major from Arkansas. This issue contains several flattering blurbs on the United States Minister to Mexico William Rosecrans, a former Union general who Clarke was hoping could support the struggling newspaper. While the Confederates may not have brought the American sport of baseball with them, this issue includes a substantial account of a match between the Mexico and Victoria Cricket Clubs, with most of the players bearing English surnames. Mining and rebellions throughout Latin America are also discussed. All of the articles, and many of the advertisements, are in English. See Frank A. Knapp, "A New Source on the Confederate Exodus to Mexico: The Two Republics," in The Journal of Southern History 19:3 (August 1953). We trace no other issues at auction.