SLAVE CHALLENGES A UNION COLONEL TO A DUELThe Courier . . . Midnight Extra. The Very Latest Telegraphic News! 2 page, single column Confederate newspaper extra, giving news on the Union victory at Murfreesboro, the buildup of forces at Vicksburg, details of an 8 January 1863 battle between General Forrest and General Sullivan's forces, a report of Union gun boats going up the Pamunkey River, and relating a story of a slave challenging Union Colonel Weeks to a duel. Approximately 355x73 mm, blue paper; folds, foxing, minor loss in bottom corner (but only affecting one word of text). Port Hudson, 10 January 1863
The Port Hudson Morning Courier, also known merely as The Courier, began printing in January 1863, making this extra one of their earliest issues. The paper ceased publication once the town was put under siege by Union forces in late May 1863. Most of this extra concerns military news, but toward the end of the issue the following paragraph appears: "A negro challenged Col. Weeks, of a New York regiment, to a duel, and sent the challenge by a white man. Col. W. refused and resigned in disgust."<
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