(CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPERS) The Volunteer Published under the Au

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(CIVIL WAR--NEWSPAPERS.) The Volunteer, Published under the Auspices of the 10th Reg't Iowa Volunteers. Broadside newspaper, 19 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches; toned, slight separation at folds, a bit of ink staining on top edge, loss of bottom left corner not affecting text. Charleston, MO, 27 January 1862

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This apparently single-issue newspaper was produced by the men of the 10th Iowa Infantry during their occupation of a small river town in southeastern Missouri. While some regimental newspapers seem to have been produced for entertainment, this one was clearly intended as propaganda of the bluntest order. One column concludes: "To the citizens of Charleston . . . if in the future you either directly or indirectly give aid or comfort to the enemy, or withhold information from us, no stone shall stand to mark where once your fair and lovely village stood." Another threatens that "if they continue to harbor our enemies and shoot our pickets, its fate will be like that of Sodom's." The rest of the sheet is filled with patriotic expressions, leavened with some heavy-handed humor and efforts to flatter the undoubtedly terrified women of Charleston. We find only one other extant copy, not in WorldCat.