1863 Vicksburg Daily Citizen Printed Wallpaper Edition Antique C19th Reprint

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1863 Vicksburg Daily Citizen Printed Wallpaper Edition Antique C19th Reprint.
This is an 1880 reprint of the original July, 2nd 1863 newspaper. A note found with this item reads, "This item was given as a premium by a Chicago Candy Co. in 1880...It is printed on 1860's era wallpaper, as was the 1863 original."
Vicksburg was a city under siege. Both Lee and Grant wanted to control the city and its important location along a bend in the Mississippi River, and in May 1863 Grant had surrounded it. . Citizens literally took shelter in caves; food and necessities grew scarcer and scarce.~~Vicksburg's newspaper naturally covered conditions on the ground in the city. But it also became a physical representation of those condition. The newspaper ran out of paper, and publisher J. M. Swords -- in a burst of ingenuity -- conceived the idea of cutting wallpaper into sheets and running them through the press as broadsides, with the wallpaper pattern one side and the text of the newspaper on the other.~~Swords issued 6 papers in this manner. This facsimile of the last was on July 2, 1863. Two days later the Confederates surrendered Vicksburg. Swords fled and Federal troops entered the city and "visited" the newspaper offices where type was still standing. They added a paragraph at the end of this issue added their own commentary, dated July 4, 1863:~"Two days brings about great changes, The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg ...
The dimensions are 17 3/4" x 11 1/4".
A scarce collector's item - ready for framing!
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