(CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPER) The Daily Citizen

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(CIVIL WAR--NEWSPAPER.) The Daily Citizen. One page, 19 x 11 inches, on verso of a sheet of wallpaper; slight separations at folds, faint bleed-through from wallpaper pattern, two minor misfolds, reinforced on verso by archival tape. Vicksburg, MS, 2 July and 4 July 1863

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The classic wallpaper newspaper. Union troops entering Vicksburg on Saturday, 4 July after the long siege found a full set of type for Thursday's newspaper. They added their own mocking paragraph on the demise of the Daily Citizen: "No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule-meat and fricassed kitten--urge Southern warriors to such diet never-more. This is the last wall-paper edition, and is, excepting this note, from the types as we found them. It will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity."
The 4 July wallpaper edition has been frequently reprinted over the years, but the present copy is correct on all points, being the second issue with "Citizen" spelled correctly. A comma follows the editor's name and also the first sentence of the 4 July note, and the misspellings "secossion" and "whisttle" can be found in column 4. The paper is printed on one of the known original wallpaper patterns, described in a 1936 Library of Congress report as "Small flowers with connecting vines giving the effect of a diamond-latticed trellis; leaves, flower petals, and stems in faded yellow-green on a cream background, centers of flowers dark brown."