(CIVIL WAR NORTH CAROLINA) Issue of the Newbern Progress on

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(CIVIL WAR--NORTH CAROLINA.) Issue of the Newbern Progress on necessity paper. 4 pages, 20 x 14 inches, on one folding sheet; unbound and uncut, folds, minor edge wear. New Bern, NC, 16 April 1862

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Issued a month after the Union captured the town in the Battle of New Bern. The content is pro-Union, including a long "Prayer for the Union" on the first page. Union soldiers were probably a large portion of the readership; see the large ad for "Smith's Bullet-Proof Vest" on page 3. The new management did not have immediate access to the resources of the Union, however. This issue was printed on some kind of coarse yellowish necessity paper, possibly made from corn husks. The editor actually apologizes for the unusual paper: 'Our paper is slightly reduced in size as we have not yet received any white stock from the North. Until it arrives we have to conform to circumstances and use such stock as we can obtain.' A few of the classified ads remind us that the slaves were not always freed under Union rule; one railroad contractor asks that "persons having Negroes to hire will write me at Fayetteville."