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DAILY CITIZEN VICKSBURG WALLPAPER NEWSPAPER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:2,200.00 USD Estimated At:3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD
DAILY CITIZEN VICKSBURG WALLPAPER NEWSPAPER
<B>LAST EDITION </B></I><B><I>THE DAILY CITIZEN,</B></I></B></I><B> VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI PRINTED ON WALL PAPER JULY 2 AND 4, 1863.</B></I> The Daily Citizen, J. M. Swords….Proprietor. This is the famous last issue of the Vicksburg <I>Daily Citizen</B></I>, the most celebrated of Civil War wallpaper newspapers. When issued on July 2nd, the editor included the following note: <I>“On Dit.--That the great Ulysses--the Yankee Generalissimo, surnamed grant-has expressed his intention of dining in Vicksburg on Saturday next, and celebrating the 4th of July by a grand dinner and so forth. When asked if he would invite Gen. Jo. Johnston to join he said ‘No! For fear there will be a row at the table’ Ulysses must get into the city before he dines in it. The way to cook a rabbit is ‘first catch the rabbit’ &c.” </B></I>When Union forces finally entered the city July 4th, they found the type still standing, and proceeded to issue the paper again with the addition of the following note: <I>“Two days bring about great changes, the banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg, Gen Grant has ‘caught the rabbit;’ he has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his dinner with him. The ‘Citizen’ lives to see it. For the last time it appears on ‘Wall-paper.’ No more will it eulogize the luxury of mule-meat and fricasseed 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.”</B></I> This copy meets all ten points specified by the Library of congress Information Circular 3 (revised 1967). Good, fold marks, very minor losses along main fold just slightly affecting text; early pencil note reading <I>“Genuine copy of the last issue of the Daily Citizen printed on wall paper. Relic owned by S. G. Kelsey.”</B></I> <BR><BR><B>Sales Records: </B></I>Sotheby’s New York, June 16, 1992, lot 206, $3500. <B></B></I><BR> Swann, April 27, 1995, lot 89, $3600. <BR> Swann, Sept. 11, 1997, lot 92, $2600. <BR><BR><B>Condition:</B></I> Very good-Fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Large (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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